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Evadale, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Buna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77612. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Evadale quadrangle. 1,246 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Evadale within Jasper County

Population over time

2 figures

Evadale fell from 1,483 to 1,246 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
20101,483
20201,246-237 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Evadale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,756 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 89 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
Arson/incendiarism89
Debris and open burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Natural4
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 203
7 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 316
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 689
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 690
4 September 2009Arson/incendiarism12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 222
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 658
30 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.2 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJASPER 14:58
30 September 1992Debris and open burning12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evadale in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 tornado, 3 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 10 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
January 1999Tornado (F2)Evadale1 killed, 10 hurt, $1,250,000no account filed
September 2019Flash FloodEvadale$1,000,000Imelda dropped 15 to 30 inches of rain across southern sections of Jasper County, including the Evadale area. Over 20 homes were flooded, and numerous streets were closed.
June 2015Flash FloodEvadale$200,000Heavy rain trained across the southern sections of Jasper County for multiple hours. This occurred on already saturated soil. 12 to 15 inches of rain fell around Buna and multiple high water rescues had to be preformed. Many roads were flooded out with some vehicles being swept off the roads. Many houses, businesses, and churches flooded in Buna and a few in Kirbyville with several inches of water. Flood waters also filled a commercial oil vat which overflowed causing a small spill in Buna.
October 2018Tornado (EF1)Evadale$75,000Tornado started just west of the Neches river and moved east for a time just north of HWY 96. The tornado moved slightly northeast damaging several roofs of homes and blowing out the walls of a metal building. Several trees were also snapped along the path. The tornado crossed HWY 96 north of Evadale and ended near county road 847. The maximum estimate winds were 107 MPH.
December 2017Tornado (EF1)Evadale$30,000Many trees were downed around the community of Gist, along the Jasper-Newton county line. Some barns and a few roofs to homes were damaged. The maximum wind speed in the tornado was estimated at 100 mph.
October 1998Flash FloodEvadale$20,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindEvadale$5,000A small shed was damaged at a church.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindEvadale$5,000no account filed
January 2001Thunderstorm WindEvadale$5,000no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindEvadale$5,000no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindEvadale$5,000no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindEvadale$2,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindEvadale$1,000A tree was reported down in Evadale.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindEvadale$1,000Jasper County Sheriff Office reported a tree blown down on Highway 62 at Gist Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindEvadale-Numerous power poles and trees downed during a storm.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindEvadale-A tree was blown down on the southbound lane of Highway 62 near Cherry Grove Baptist Church.
May 2018HailEvadale-Ping pong ball size hail was reported roughly 2 miles north of the Orange/Jasper County line on FM 105.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindEvadale-Small downburst from thunderstorm felled a tree on Highway 2246 in Evadale.
June 2011HailEvadale-no account filed
April 2002HailEvadale-no account filed
April 2002HailEvadale-no account filed
October 2001Tornado (F0)Evadale-no account filed
January 1998HailEvadale-no account filed
April 1997HailEvadale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Temco0.5 miles12
Quinn2.8 miles13
Bunker Hill7.5 miles9
Buna7.9 miles9
Robertson9.6 miles9
Bessmay9.8 miles9
Gist10.4 miles9
Forbes13.1 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 EvadaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q368360The 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 1335544. 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.