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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.

Eureka within Navarro County

Population over time

2 figures

Eureka 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.

YearPeople Change
2010307
2020313+6 (+2%)

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

297 since 2003

Regional 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 burning145
Missing data/not specified/undetermined67
Equipment and vehicle use40
Smoking13
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSE CR 3110 @ 3150
8 September 2014Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service14-11982
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSE CR 3110@ 3150
8 September 2011Smoking2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1112192 WILDFIRE
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3072 BURN BAN
7 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNW 2020 & HWY 22 ( JIMMY DADE)
6 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 641@HIGHLINES
5 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceC13-11697

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro County

Storms near this place

18 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2005Thunderstorm WindEureka$30,000A 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 2018Thunderstorm WindEureka$15,000Social 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 2025Thunderstorm WindEureka$10,000Storm chaser photo showed power pole and power lines down on Highway 287 just east of Eureka.
December 2004Thunderstorm WindEureka$5,0005 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 1993Thunderstorm WindEureka$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines.
March 2025HailEureka-Public reported half dollar sized hail in Mildred via social media picture.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindEureka-Emergency management reported numerous trees damaged in Eureka, TX.
April 2020HailEureka-Dime sized hail was reported on SE County Road 3110 in the Eureka area.
June 2019HailEureka-A public report indicated quarter size hail approximately 4 miles east-southeast of the city of Eureka, TX.
April 2017HailEureka-Emergency management reported quarter-sized hail in the towns of Mildred and Eureka.
January 2012HailEureka-Penny sized hail was reported in Eureka.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindEureka-A 60 mph wind gust was estimated in Eureka. Half inch size hail also fell.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindEureka-Several trees blown down.
April 1995HailEureka-Street flooding occurred on the east side of Corsicana.
April 2011HailEureka-no account filed
May 2005HailEureka-no account filed
May 2003HailEureka-no account filed
May 2003HailEureka-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
Navarro4.5 miles7
Mildred4.6 miles10
Cheneyboro4.7 miles9
Elm Flat4.9 miles9
Round Prairie6.4 miles10
Mustang7.1 miles10
Angus7.3 miles10
Powell7.4 miles9

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 EurekaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975307The 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.