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Emhouse, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Corsicana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75110. The Survey maps it on the Emhouse quadrangle. 187 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 472 feet above sea level.

Emhouse within Navarro County

Population over time

3 figures

Emhouse grew from 159 to 187 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000159
2010133-26 (-16%)
2020187+54 (+41%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

128 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Emhouse between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,626 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7404 HWY 22
30 September 2010Arson/incendiarism15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1013500
3 September 2011Debris and open burning35 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1111906
28 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5757 FM 1126
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY FIRE 2
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 September 2015Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12263 NW 2290
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOTTEN BAIL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emhouse in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death and 4 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2015Flash FloodEmhouse1 killed, $300,000Nearly ten inches of rainfall fell in the city of Corsicana during the evening and overnight hours of May 10th and 11th. During the early morning hours, there were several high water rescues, in and near Corsicana. According to news reports, Interstate 45 became a parking lot, and people were trapped in their vehicles, both in high water and in lots and roadways across town. A 23 year old male lost his life as flood waters quickly swept his car down stream near the intersection of 35th street and 3rd Avenue in Corscicana.
October 2010Tornado (EF2)Emhouse4 hurt, $1,000,000A strong EF2 tornado hit the town of Rice damaging several homes, derailing train cars, damaging a school, and overturning cars on the interstate. The tornado began about 4 miles outside the town limits of Rice and first damaged two homes near NW 050 road. One of the homes was completely destroyed. About a mile and half later, the tornado struck another home causing the exterior walls to collapse and taking the roof off the home. Next, the tornado entered the town of Rice and moved over a train track derailing 11 train cars. One of the train cars ended up in the nearby baseball field of the high school. The baseball field and nearby football stadium was also damaged, and the softball field was completely destroyed. Power poles and bleachers were damaged at the football and baseball field. At the softball field, the fences, dugouts, scorekeepers stand, scoreboard, light poles, and bleachers were all destroyed. The tornado then damaged an intermediate school causing one wall to lean and peeling the roof off the gymnasium. Next, the tornado crossed Interstate 45 where it overturned a few cars and trapped some people. One 18 wheeler carrying a dump truck lost the dump truck which fell onto a car traveling in the other direction. The driver of the car sustained minor cuts. East of the interstate, the tornado damaged 4 more homes causing mainly roof damage to the homes. The roof damage east of the interstate was mostly EF1 intensity. A total of 4 persons were injured during this tornado. All were transported to area hospitals with minor, non-life threatening injuries. In addition to the structural damage, trees were snapped along the path of the tornado. The maximum sustained winds were estimated to be 135 mph.
December 2020FloodEmhouse$200,000Steady moderate to heavy rain led to flooding of several roads and areas across mainly the central portions of Navarro County. Portions of I-45 were flooded, too, and the water approached a few homes. Within the flooding, a period of heavy rain caused Flash Flooding.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindEmhouse$20,000Numerous trees were blown down and several structures sustained damage due to high winds west of the town of Emhouse along Farm-to-Market Road 1126.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindEmhouse$5,000Emergency management reported an outbuilding and a barn destroyed along NW CR 1180 between Barry and Corsicana, with scattered damage to power poles and tree limbs.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindEmhouse$4,000Emergency management reported large trees and power lines down from Emhouse to Corbet.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindEmhouse$2,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and caused minor structural damage to buildings.
August 2025Flash FloodEmhouse-Emergency management reported that several secondary roads were flooded in northern Navarro County.
December 2020Flash FloodEmhouse-A period of heavy rain, in addition on previous steady moderate to heavy rain, resulted in flooded roads across parts of Navarro Co that had to be barricaded. Other roads were impassable.
December 2024HailEmhouse-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Navarro County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Black Hills3.6 miles9
Cryer Creek4.8 miles9
Barry5.4 miles8
Rice7.0 miles8
Corsicana7.4 miles10
Pettys Chapel8.0 miles10
Drane8.1 miles9
Tupelo8.2 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on EmhouseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979683The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1335439. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.