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.
Population over time
3 figuresHuxley 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 298 | |
| 2010 | 385 | +87 (+29%) |
| 2020 | 361 | -24 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1944 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1984 USGS Huxley quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Natchitoches quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2003 USGS Huxley quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
22 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 1 September 2000 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | TRANSFORMER |
| 11 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | ENGLISH |
| 1 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | WALNUT CREEK |
| 24 July 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7042 |
| 17 July 2020 | Natural | under an acre | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | GRANNIES CREEK |
| 20 April 2006 | Smoking | under an acre | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | SKUNK |
| 7 March 1993 | Debris and open burning | 27 acres | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down in and around Huxley. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | - | Numerous trees downed across Huxley. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Huxley | - | Quarter size hail fell several miles south of Huxley. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Huxley | - | Golfball size hail fell in Huxley. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | - | Power lines were downed in the Huxley community. |
| December 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | - | A large tree was downed across Hwy. 417 in Huxley, Texas. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | - | Trees and power lines were downed on FM 139. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | - | Trees downed on FM 139. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | - | Several large trees down. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Huxley | - | Streets flooded and impassable. |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | - | Several large trees down across FM 839. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Huxley | - | Trees down. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Huxley | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Huxley | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Harmony | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Ragtown | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Jordans Store | 7.2 miles | 14 | |
| Dreka | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Goober Hill | 8.2 miles | 14 | |
| West Hamilton (historical) | 8.8 miles | 14 | |
| Hurstown | 9.2 miles | 12 | |
| Campti | 9.7 miles | 13 |
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 Huxley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982156 | The 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.






