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Forsan, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Big Spring census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79733. The Survey maps it on the Forsan quadrangle. 225 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,789 feet above sea level.

Forsan within Howard County

Population over time

2 figures

Forsan grew from 210 to 225 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
2010210
2020225+15 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

135 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Forsan between 2005 and 2020, burning about 11,256 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use38
Power generation/transmission/distribution36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
8 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 821
6 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution21 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3 MILES EAST OF SOUTH HWY 87 ON FM 821
6 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3 MILE RD
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 461 AND S HWY 87 GRASS FIRE
28 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMLK ASSIST BSFD
28 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRIAN RD
24 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service821
23 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceS 87 AND 461

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howard County

Storms near this place

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forsan in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 24 hail, 1 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 2006HailForsan$10,000Tennis ball size hail fell in a swath from west of Forsan along U.S. Highway 87 to Forsan. The hail broke numerous car windows in Forsan.
June 2003HailForsan$3,000Baseball size hail was reported two miles east of Forsan. No significant damage was reported.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindForsan$500A trained spotter reported large tree limbs down as a result of thunderstorm winds.
May 2025HailForsan-Quarter-size hail was reported in Howard County by a trained spotter.
April 2024HailForsan-Received this report via mPING.
May 2016HailForsan-Ping pong ball to golf ball size hail fell in Forsan, TX.
May 2006HailForsan-Golfball size hail fell for 10 minutes and covered the ground at an NWS cooperative observer's residence.
March 2004HailForsan-The first of three individual hail storms to affect Howard County on the morning of the 4th resulted in quarter size hail at Forsan.
March 2004HailForsan-Nickel hail was reported by the Texas Department of Public Safety along Highway 87 at Forsan.The convection evolved into a squall line by mid morning. The initially short line of storms was characterized by a well-defined bookend vortex on its north end that tracked across Glasscock County. This portion of the line produced quarter to golfball size hail. Severe thunderstorm winds affected eastern Pecos and northern Terrell Counties as the southern extent of the line progressed east.Several line echo wave patterns were identified using local warning weather radar along the squall line as it expanded north with time. A tornado was confirmed to have been associated with one such signature in northeast Reagan County.
March 2003HailForsan-Convection was widespread during the evening of the 21st. An isolated severe thunderstorm developed within a broad area of precipitation. This storm produced penny size hail at Forsan which accumulated three to five inches deep. Some of the hail remained in drifts beside houses as late as mid-morning on the 22nd.
June 2003HailForsan-Numerous reports of penny to golfball hail were received from the cities of Forsan and Coahoma.
May 2002HailForsan-Ping pong ball to lemon size hail reported in and near the community of Forsan.
August 2002HailForsan-The NWS COOP observer in Forsan reported nickel to half dollar size hail.
May 2021HailForsan-no account filed
May 2021HailForsan-no account filed
May 2017HailForsan-no account filed
May 2016HailForsan-no account filed
May 2005HailForsan-no account filed
March 2004HailForsan-no account filed
March 2002HailForsan-no account filed
April 2001HailForsan-no account filed
June 2000HailForsan-no account filed
May 1998HailForsan-no account filed
April 1997HailForsan-no account filed
March 1995HailForsan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Howard 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
Ross City3.3 miles11
Otis Chalk5.9 miles11
South Haven8.0 miles12
Elbow8.5 miles10
Webb Village10.3 miles12
Midway11.4 miles10
Big Spring11.4 miles11
Ziler11.5 miles11

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 ForsanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982164The 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 1336045. 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.