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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.

Fate within Rockwall County

Population over time

2 figures

Fate 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.

YearPeople Change
20106,357
202017,958+11,601 (+182%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

198 since 2005

Regional 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 burning81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined67
Equipment and vehicle use20
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2006Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOLIDAY
5 September 2013Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013-571
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2010-0647
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 66 & FM 1138 - 11075351
3 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2016-904
28 September 2005Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockwall County

Storms near this place

13 since 2005

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023HailFate$250,000A trained spotter reported 2.25 inch diameter hail stones near Fate, TX.
June 2023HailFate$250,000A public report indicated ping pong ball to hen egg sized hail near Fate, TX.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindFate$25,000Fire and rescue reported that about a dozen homes were damaged within the 100 Block of Jerome Prairie and 200 block of Cottonwood.
April 2026HailFate$20,000Large 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 2009Thunderstorm WindFate$500Small limbs were reported down at the intersection of Highway 66 and Interstate 30 east of Rockwall.
April 2026HailFate-Report of 1.5 inch hail from mPING.
April 2022HailFate-A public report indicated dime sized hail in Fate, TX.
November 2012HailFate-Amateur Radio operators reported nickel sized hail near Union Valley.
July 2009HailFate-Nickel size hail fell at the intersection of Highway 66 and Interstate 30 east of Rockwall.
May 2007Flash FloodFate-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 2005Flash FloodFate-The Interstate 30 north and south service roads were closed between FM 35 and the Hunt county line due to flooding.
June 2023HailFate-no account filed
May 2012HailFate-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockwall 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
Mobile City2.0 miles16
Blackland3.3 miles11
Royse City3.5 miles11
Rockwall4.2 miles16
Munson5.4 miles11
Glen Hill5.9 miles16
McLendon6.6 miles13
McLendon-Chisholm6.8 miles13

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 FateAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981518The 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.