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Huxley, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Shelbyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75973. It stands on Brawley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Huxley quadrangle. 361 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 279 feet above sea level.

Huxley within Shelby County

Population over time

3 figures

Huxley grew from 298 to 361 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
2000298
2010385+87 (+29%)
2020361-24 (-6%)

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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Huxley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 244 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
14 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2000Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasTRANSFORMER
11 August 2002Debris and open burning18 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasENGLISH
1 August 2002Debris and open burning35 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasWALNUT CREEK
24 July 2015Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7042
17 July 2020Naturalunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasGRANNIES CREEK
20 April 2006Smokingunder an acreNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasSKUNK
7 March 1993Debris and open burning27 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In Texasnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huxley in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindHuxley$5,000Several trees were blown down in and around Huxley.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindHuxley-Numerous trees downed across Huxley.
April 2023HailHuxley-Quarter size hail fell several miles south of Huxley.
April 2023HailHuxley-Golfball size hail fell in Huxley.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHuxley-Power lines were downed in the Huxley community.
December 2014Thunderstorm WindHuxley-A large tree was downed across Hwy. 417 in Huxley, Texas.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHuxley-Trees and power lines were downed on FM 139.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindHuxley-Trees downed on FM 139.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHuxley-Several large trees down.
July 2003Flash FloodHuxley-Streets flooded and impassable.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindHuxley-Several large trees down across FM 839.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindHuxley-Trees down.
July 2003HailHuxley-no account filed
March 2002HailHuxley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
New Harmony5.2 miles14
Ragtown6.4 miles14
Jordans Store7.2 miles14
Dreka7.4 miles14
Goober Hill8.2 miles14
West Hamilton (historical)8.8 miles14
Hurstown9.2 miles12
Campti9.7 miles13

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 HuxleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982156The 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 1382055. 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.