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Hooks, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hooks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75561. The Survey maps it on the Hooks quadrangle. 2,518 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Hooks within Bowie County

Population over time

3 figures

Hooks fell from 2,973 to 2,518 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
20002,973
20102,769-204 (-7%)
20202,518-251 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

103 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Hooks between 1993 and 2020, burning about 978 acres in total. 7 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 burning64
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
9 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6175
7 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minor30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2000Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 370
3 September 1995Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 206
25 September 2011Natural12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 636
24 September 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 627

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie County

Storms near this place

37 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hooks in 37 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 17 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 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
May 2016Thunderstorm WindHooks$125,000Widespread tree damage occurred along Garden Road in Hooks. Several trees were uprooted here, one tree fell on a home, and another fell on a vehicle.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHooks$60,000Strong straight line winds downed numerous trees and power lines producing widespread power outages. The wind uprooted a sycamore tree which fell through a home. An above ground swimming pool was shoved 75 while a swing set was twisted beyond repair. A storage shed was also ripped apart. A gas company shed was also destroyed.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindHooks$40,000Widespread tree damage occurred just east northeast of Hooks. Several trees were uprooted, all of which pointed to the south southeast. One tree landed on a corner of a house.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindHooks$1,000Several trees were snapped or uprooted on Garden Road. One tree fell on a pergola and outdoor garden.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHooks-Trees and power lines were blown down near the Hooks and Leary communities.
June 2023HailHooks-Quarter size hail reported just west of Hooks via mPING.
June 2023HailHooks-Golf ball size hail reported at Red River Army Depot.
June 2023HailHooks-Golf ball size hail reported just west of Hooks via social media.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHooks-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across Bowie County.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindHooks-A tree was blown down near Hooks.
May 2020HailHooks-Quarter size hail fell in Hooks.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindHooks-Several trees were downed in Hooks.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindHooks-A tree was blown down blocking a road in Hooks.
March 2016HailHooks-Dime size hail was reported in Hooks.
March 2016Flash FloodHooks-Severe flooding was reported on Hwy. 82 between Hooks and New Boston, Texas.
April 2016Funnel CloudHooks-A funnel cloud was reported north of Interstate 30 just north of Hooks.
March 2016HailHooks-Pea to dime size hail fell at the Red River Army Depot near Hooks.
April 2016HailHooks-Quarter size hail fell at the Red River Army Depot Fire Department.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindHooks-A roof was torn off of a home in Hooks.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHooks-Trees were downed in Hooks and Texarkana, Texas.
May 2012HailHooks-Nickel to quarter sized hail in Hooks, Texas.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHooks-Two trees were downed blocking a road in the Hooks, Texas community.
March 2008HailHooks-Hail to the size of softballs were reported in Hooks, Texas. The hail produced widespread damage to the roofs and windows of area homes...businesses as well as automobiles.
April 2008HailHooks-Hail fell at the Red River Army Depot.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindHooks-Trees and power lines down in the Redlick community.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindHooks-Trees were downed.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindHooks-Gust estimated by Storm Chaser in the town of Red Lick.
May 2003Funnel CloudHooks-Sighted east of main gate at Red River Army Depot by fire department.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindHooks-Numerous trees down across FM 2216.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindHooks-Few trees and powerlines toppled.
April 2012HailHooks-no account filed
January 2012HailHooks-no account filed
April 2011HailHooks-no account filed
March 2008HailHooks-no account filed
June 2006HailHooks-no account filed
November 2005HailHooks-no account filed
November 1995HailHooks-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bowie 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
Whaley2.5 miles13
Victory City2.7 miles18
Burns3.6 miles11
Leary4.3 miles18
Redbank4.4 miles11
Barkman4.7 miles13
Red Bank4.8 miles13
Smith Hill5.1 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 HooksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982654The 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 1359527. 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.