Garrett, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Ennis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75119. The Survey maps it on the Ennis West quadrangle. 829 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 554 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGarrett grew from 806 to 829 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 | 806 | |
| 2020 | 829 | +23 (+3%) |
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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Ennis quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Ennis West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
122 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Garrett between 2006 and 2019, burning about 1,158 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 | 57 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Natural | 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 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE |
| 5 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRECKENRIDGE VILLAGE |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRACTABEL |
| 29 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 20 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 11 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNION HILL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garrett in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2024 | Hail | Garrett | $65,000 | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Garrett | $15,000 | no account filed |
| January 2025 | Flash Flood | Garrett | $5,000 | Emergency management reported a water rescue at the 5700 block of southbound I-45 service road in Garrett. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garrett | $5,000 | Amateur radio reported power poles snapped near Interstate 45 just north of the city of Ennis, TX. |
| October 2011 | Hail | Garrett | - | Quarter sized hail was reported by a trained spotter in Garrett. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Garrett | - | Hail size increased to ping pong balls 4 miles north of the city of Ennis. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Garrett | - | Numerous penny to quarter size hail stones fell 4 miles north of Ennis. The largest hailstone was the size of a half-dollar. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Garrett | - | Penny size hail was reported in Garrett. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garrett | - | Thunderstorm winds of 60 mph were estimated in Garrett. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Garrett | - | Nickel size hail fell one mile northeast of Garrett. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garrett | - | Trees knocked down by strong wind. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Garrett | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Garrett | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ennis | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Sonoma | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Boyce | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Crisp | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Palmer | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Reagor Springs | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Ike | 6.7 miles | 10 | |
| Creechville | 6.8 miles | 11 |
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 Garrett | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982212 | 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 1336411. 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.




