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.
Population over time
2 figuresEvadale 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,483 | |
| 2020 | 1,246 | -237 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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 Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Silsbee quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Evadale quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
175 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 89 |
| Debris and open burning | 56 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 203 |
| 7 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 316 |
| 6 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 689 |
| 6 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 690 |
| 4 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 222 |
| 4 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 658 |
| 30 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.2 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JASPER 14:58 |
| 30 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1999 | Tornado (F2) | Evadale | 1 killed, 10 hurt, $1,250,000 | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Flash Flood | Evadale | $1,000,000 | Imelda 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 2015 | Flash Flood | Evadale | $200,000 | Heavy 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 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Evadale | $75,000 | Tornado 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 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Evadale | $30,000 | Many 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 1998 | Flash Flood | Evadale | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evadale | $5,000 | A small shed was damaged at a church. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evadale | $5,000 | no account filed |
| January 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evadale | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evadale | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evadale | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evadale | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evadale | $1,000 | A tree was reported down in Evadale. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evadale | $1,000 | Jasper County Sheriff Office reported a tree blown down on Highway 62 at Gist Road. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evadale | - | Numerous power poles and trees downed during a storm. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evadale | - | A tree was blown down on the southbound lane of Highway 62 near Cherry Grove Baptist Church. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Evadale | - | Ping pong ball size hail was reported roughly 2 miles north of the Orange/Jasper County line on FM 105. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evadale | - | Small downburst from thunderstorm felled a tree on Highway 2246 in Evadale. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Evadale | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Evadale | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Evadale | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Evadale | - | no account filed |
| January 1998 | Hail | Evadale | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Evadale | - | 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.
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 Evadale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q368360 | 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 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.





