Fruitvale, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Grand Saline census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75127. The Survey maps it on the Fruitvale quadrangle. 476 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 466 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresFruitvale grew from 418 to 476 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 418 | |
| 2010 | 408 | -10 (-2%) |
| 2020 | 476 | +68 (+17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1962 USGS Fruitvale quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
141 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Fruitvale between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,064 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 98 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 6 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MIKE GOODE |
| 6 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 09-152 |
| 25 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VZCR 1820 |
| 25 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 24 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 23 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | VZCR 1110 |
| 23 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fruitvale: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgewood Sulfur Plant | Sulfur | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fruitvale in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 3 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Hail | Fruitvale | $9,000 | Multiple people on social media reported hail between 1.5 to 2 inches near Fruitvale. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fruitvale | $3,000 | Power lines were blown down by high winds. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fruitvale | $2,000 | Several scattered large tree branches were broken and tree trunks snapped in the northeast part of the county from Fruitvale to Grand Saline. A green house sustained roof damage near Fruitvale. |
| January 1999 | Hail | Fruitvale | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Fruitvale | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Springs | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Edgewood | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Small | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Grand Saline | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Wentworth | 7.6 miles | 13 | |
| Corinth | 7.9 miles | 14 | |
| Oakland | 8.1 miles | 13 | |
| Myrtle Springs | 8.4 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 Fruitvale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981040 | 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 1336284. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.




