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Heath, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the South Rockwall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75032. The Survey maps it on the Forney North quadrangle. 9,769 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 502 feet above sea level.

Heath within Rockwall County

Population over time

2 figures

Heath grew from 6,921 to 9,769 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
20106,921
20209,769+2,848 (+41%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

73 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Heath between 2005 and 2017, burning about 658 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2

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
28 September 2005Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011-0771
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2016-796
5 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service201-500
5 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011-0723

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockwall County

Storms near this place

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heath in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2012HailHeath$15,000,000Golf ball to baseball sized hail was reported in Heath.
September 2010Tornado (EF0)Heath$50,000A tornado caused mainly roof damage to several brick homes on the southeast side of Lake Ray Hubbard near Heath. Another home had its chimney knocked over and some large tree damage also occurred along the path of this tornado. The winds were estimated to be between 85-95 mph.
March 1995Thunderstorm WindHeath$20,000High winds caused roof and window damage.
December 2022HailHeath-A trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail near Heath, TX.
January 2016HailHeath-A social media report indicated penny to nickel sized hail in the town of Heath, TX.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindHeath-Trees were blown down by high winds.
April 1997Flash FloodHeath-Rainbow Lake Road was closed due to high water.
April 1995HailHeath-A brief tornado touchdown was reported by the volunteer fire department.
April 2021HailHeath-no account filed
May 1999HailHeath-no account filed
May 1998HailHeath-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindHeath-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindHeath-no account filed
April 1996HailHeath-no account filed
April 1993HailHeath-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockwall 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
Glen Hill4.0 miles16
McLendon4.6 miles13
McLendon-Chisholm5.0 miles13
Chisholm5.5 miles10
Rockwall6.6 miles16
Mobile City6.8 miles16
Blackland7.9 miles11
Fate8.8 miles16

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 HeathAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981699The 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 1337538. 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.