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Holliday, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Holliday census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76366. The Survey maps it on the Holliday quadrangle. 1,524 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.

Holliday within Archer County

Population over time

2 figures

Holliday fell from 1,758 to 1,524 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
20101,758
20201,524-234 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

143 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Holliday between 2005 and 2020, burning about 4,055 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined70
Equipment and vehicle use24
Power generation/transmission/distribution19
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9039 SEYMOUR HWY
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTATE RD FIRE
2 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service368 FIRE
1 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRITTON LANE FIRE
9 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest Service08/09/2020A
9 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWARREN PLANT ROAD FIRE
6 August 2014Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFORD ROAD FIRE
28 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution9.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Archer County

Storms near this place

60 of 76 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holliday in 76 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 55 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 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
March 2004Thunderstorm WindHolliday$250,000The Holliday School sustained heavy damage. The south wall of the gym collapsed. A building that was used to store football equipment was destroyed. The restroom next to the football field also lost part of its roof. Extensive damage was seen on the softball field. Debris scattered across the parking lot damaging student and faculty vehicles.
May 2000HailHolliday$250,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindHolliday$25,000A mobile home was blown over.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindHolliday$20,000The roof of a mobile home was blown off. Trees and powerlines were downed, and lights at a football stadium were blown over.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHolliday$15,000Multiple power poles blown down. Event time is estimated from radar observations.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHolliday$3,500Power lines were downed.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindHolliday$2,500Five power poles were downed on Highway 1954.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindHolliday$2,000Tree limbs snapped and trees uprooted.
April 2025HailHolliday-The report was relayed by amateur radio.
April 2025HailHolliday-Event time is estimated from radar observations.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHolliday-An estimated wind gust in the community of Holiday. The report was relayed by amateur radio. The location is approximate.
April 2024HailHolliday-Relayed by amateur radio.
June 2019Flash FloodHolliday-Water flowing over one lane of Highway 82.
June 2019Flash FloodHolliday-Water running over Ford road.
March 2018HailHolliday-Dime to nickel size hail covered the ground just north of Holliday.
October 2018FloodHolliday-Emergency manager reported sandbagging to prevent home damage along FM 1954 between highway 79 and Holliday.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHolliday-Trees and tree limbs downed.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Holliday-A video of a waterspout over Lake Diversion was relayed from a resident through KFDX TV. No damage was reported.
April 2009HailHolliday-The hail covered the ground in downtown Holliday.
June 2007FloodHolliday-FM440 east out of Holliday was closed due to high water.
June 2007FloodHolliday-FM 2650 was closed near junction with RTE 1954 due to high water.
August 2005Flash FloodHolliday-At 3:00 pm CST, a county law enforcement official reported that floodwaters from Holliday Creek had covered Texas Farm Road 368 at the intersection with Gose City Road, 5 miles south of Holliday TX.
August 2005Flash FloodHolliday-At 10:30 am CST, the Texas Department of Transportation reported that Texas Farm Road 368 was closed due to floodwaters along Panther Creek, 4 miles south of Holliday, TX.
April 2003HailHolliday-Reported by Channel 7 in Lawton, Oklahoma.
June 2003HailHolliday-Hail was observed on Highway 277.
April 2026HailHolliday-no account filed
March 2023HailHolliday-no account filed
April 2021HailHolliday-no account filed
April 2021HailHolliday-no account filed
May 2020HailHolliday-no account filed
May 2019HailHolliday-no account filed
March 2018HailHolliday-no account filed
May 2012Thunderstorm WindHolliday-no account filed
April 2007HailHolliday-no account filed
April 2007HailHolliday-no account filed
June 2005HailHolliday-no account filed
June 2005HailHolliday-no account filed
June 2005HailHolliday-no account filed
June 2005HailHolliday-no account filed
June 2005HailHolliday-no account filed
April 2004HailHolliday-no account filed
April 2003HailHolliday-no account filed
April 2003HailHolliday-no account filed
April 2003HailHolliday-no account filed
April 2003HailHolliday-no account filed
May 2003HailHolliday-no account filed
June 2003HailHolliday-no account filed
April 2002HailHolliday-no account filed
May 2001HailHolliday-no account filed
April 2000HailHolliday-no account filed
April 2000HailHolliday-no account filed
May 1999HailHolliday-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHolliday-no account filed
May 1999HailHolliday-no account filed
July 1998HailHolliday-no account filed
July 1998HailHolliday-no account filed
June 1998HailHolliday-no account filed
June 1998HailHolliday-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHolliday-no account filed
April 1996HailHolliday-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Archer 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
Hartex1.0 miles8
Dads Corner4.8 miles9
Mankins5.9 miles7
Lakeside City8.0 miles10
Luke Wilson10.2 miles9
Black Flat11.3 miles9
Dundee12.2 miles9
Archer City15.7 miles9

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 HollidayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q478491The 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 1359420. 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.