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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.

Garrett within Ellis County

Population over time

2 figures

Garrett 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.

YearPeople Change
2010806
2020829+23 (+3%)

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

122 since 2006

Regional 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 burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use18
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRECKENRIDGE VILLAGE
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRACTABEL
29 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
20 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNION HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2024HailGarrett$65,000no account filed
April 2011HailGarrett$15,000no account filed
January 2025Flash FloodGarrett$5,000Emergency management reported a water rescue at the 5700 block of southbound I-45 service road in Garrett.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGarrett$5,000Amateur radio reported power poles snapped near Interstate 45 just north of the city of Ennis, TX.
October 2011HailGarrett-Quarter sized hail was reported by a trained spotter in Garrett.
May 2010HailGarrett-Hail size increased to ping pong balls 4 miles north of the city of Ennis.
May 2010HailGarrett-Numerous penny to quarter size hail stones fell 4 miles north of Ennis. The largest hailstone was the size of a half-dollar.
August 2010HailGarrett-Penny size hail was reported in Garrett.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindGarrett-Thunderstorm winds of 60 mph were estimated in Garrett.
May 2009HailGarrett-Nickel size hail fell one mile northeast of Garrett.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindGarrett-Trees knocked down by strong wind.
May 2025HailGarrett-no account filed
April 1996HailGarrett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Ennis2.8 miles11
Sonoma2.9 miles11
Boyce4.5 miles11
Crisp4.6 miles11
Palmer4.7 miles11
Reagor Springs6.1 miles9
Ike6.7 miles10
Creechville6.8 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 GarrettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982212The 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.