Eureka, 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 75109. The Survey maps it on the Powell quadrangle. 313 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 397 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEureka grew from 307 to 313 between 2010 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 307 | |
| 2020 | 313 | +6 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Powell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
297 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Eureka between 2003 and 2020, burning about 4,202 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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 burning | 145 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 67 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 40 |
| Smoking | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SE CR 3110 @ 3150 |
| 8 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 14-11982 |
| 8 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SE CR 3110@ 3150 |
| 8 September 2011 | Smoking | 2.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1112192 WILDFIRE |
| 7 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3072 BURN BAN |
| 7 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NW 2020 & HWY 22 ( JIMMY DADE) |
| 6 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 641@HIGHLINES |
| 5 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | C13-11697 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 10 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eureka | $30,000 | A trailer home was completely destroyed and concrete-rooted support posts were pulled out of the ground and tossed by high winds. Numerous other trailer homes, sheds, awnings, chimneys, as well as a boat and a trampoline were damaged or destroyed by high wind. Most of the damage occurred near the intersection of FM 637 and FM 2859 between Mildred and Eureka. |
| October 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eureka | $15,000 | Social media report of damage. The emergency manager reported a storage unit facility was damaged between Eureka and Mildred but an exact location could not be obtained. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eureka | $10,000 | Storm chaser photo showed power pole and power lines down on Highway 287 just east of Eureka. |
| December 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eureka | $5,000 | 5 large trees were blown down at a residence, one onto a carport, which collapsed it onto a car under the carport. The back porch of the home was heavily damaged. |
| October 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eureka | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Eureka | - | Public reported half dollar sized hail in Mildred via social media picture. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eureka | - | Emergency management reported numerous trees damaged in Eureka, TX. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Eureka | - | Dime sized hail was reported on SE County Road 3110 in the Eureka area. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Eureka | - | A public report indicated quarter size hail approximately 4 miles east-southeast of the city of Eureka, TX. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Eureka | - | Emergency management reported quarter-sized hail in the towns of Mildred and Eureka. |
| January 2012 | Hail | Eureka | - | Penny sized hail was reported in Eureka. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eureka | - | A 60 mph wind gust was estimated in Eureka. Half inch size hail also fell. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eureka | - | Several trees blown down. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Eureka | - | Street flooding occurred on the east side of Corsicana. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Eureka | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Eureka | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Eureka | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Eureka | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navarro | 4.5 miles | 7 | |
| Mildred | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Cheneyboro | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Elm Flat | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Round Prairie | 6.4 miles | 10 | |
| Mustang | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Angus | 7.3 miles | 10 | |
| Powell | 7.4 miles | 9 |
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 Eureka | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q975307 | The 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 1378273. 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.



