Fate, Texas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Northeast Rockwall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75132. The Survey maps it on the Rockwall quadrangle. 17,958 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 587 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFate grew from 6,357 to 17,958 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 | 6,357 | |
| 2020 | 17,958 | +11,601 (+182%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1912 USGS Rockwall quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1919 USGS Royse City quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Rockwall quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1995 USGS Rockwall quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
198 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Fate between 2005 and 2018, burning about 837 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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 | 81 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 67 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HOLIDAY |
| 5 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE |
| 5 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2013-571 |
| 5 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2010-0647 |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 66 & FM 1138 - 11075351 |
| 3 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2016-904 |
| 28 September 2005 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fate in 13 storm reports between 2005 and 2026: 9 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Hail | Fate | $250,000 | A trained spotter reported 2.25 inch diameter hail stones near Fate, TX. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Fate | $250,000 | A public report indicated ping pong ball to hen egg sized hail near Fate, TX. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fate | $25,000 | Fire and rescue reported that about a dozen homes were damaged within the 100 Block of Jerome Prairie and 200 block of Cottonwood. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Fate | $20,000 | Large hail reported in Fate. Exact hail size was unknown, but the hail was large enough to leave holes in a metal roof on a property near the Brookshires. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fate | $500 | Small limbs were reported down at the intersection of Highway 66 and Interstate 30 east of Rockwall. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Fate | - | Report of 1.5 inch hail from mPING. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Fate | - | A public report indicated dime sized hail in Fate, TX. |
| November 2012 | Hail | Fate | - | Amateur Radio operators reported nickel sized hail near Union Valley. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Fate | - | Nickel size hail fell at the intersection of Highway 66 and Interstate 30 east of Rockwall. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Fate | - | In Royse City, FM 548 at Lakes Drive was flooded. Parker Creek was over its banks. FM 549 north of Highway 66 and FM 2642 were flooded near Fate. |
| January 2005 | Flash Flood | Fate | - | The Interstate 30 north and south service roads were closed between FM 35 and the Hunt county line due to flooding. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Fate | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Fate | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile City | 2.0 miles | 16 | |
| Blackland | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Royse City | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Rockwall | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Munson | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Glen Hill | 5.9 miles | 16 | |
| McLendon | 6.6 miles | 13 | |
| McLendon-Chisholm | 6.8 miles | 13 |
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 Fate | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981518 | 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 1335725. 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.






