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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.

Fruitvale within Van Zandt County

Population over time

3 figures

Fruitvale 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.

YearPeople Change
2000418
2010408-10 (-2%)
2020476+68 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

141 since 1996

Regional 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 burning98
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMIKE GOODE
6 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09-152
25 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVZCR 1820
25 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
24 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
23 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceVZCR 1110
23 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Zandt County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Edgewood Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Van Zandt County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2026HailFruitvale$9,000Multiple people on social media reported hail between 1.5 to 2 inches near Fruitvale.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindFruitvale$3,000Power lines were blown down by high winds.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindFruitvale$2,000Several 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 1999HailFruitvale-no account filed
March 1997HailFruitvale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Zandt 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
Lawrence Springs2.9 miles11
Edgewood4.5 miles12
Small5.0 miles11
Grand Saline5.0 miles15
Wentworth7.6 miles13
Corinth7.9 miles14
Oakland8.1 miles13
Myrtle Springs8.4 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 FruitvaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981040The 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.