Italy, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Italy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76651. The Survey maps it on the Italy quadrangle. 1,926 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 571 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresItaly grew from 1,863 to 1,926 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,863 | |
| 2020 | 1,926 | +63 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Italy quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Italy between 2006 and 2017, burning about 245 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIRE |
| 20 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 12 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 011-197 |
| 5 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 17 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIRE |
| 12 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 46 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | REYROSA RANCH FIRE |
| 23 July 2017 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1580 N HWY 77 FIRE |
| 17 July 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Italy in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2021 | Hail | Italy | $20,000,000 | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Italy | $150,000 | A mobile home was unroofed southeast of Italy and numerous barns and outbuildings were damaged. A family was trapped in a collapsed mobile home in Avalon, and another mobile home was blown over.Southwest of Avalon a high tension tower was bent over. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Italy | $20,000 | The county fire chief reported wind damage to the elementary school in Italy and surrounding homes. The damage consisted of mostly peel up or off metal roofing and shingle damage. Tree limb damage was also observed. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Italy | $15,000 | A power pole fell onto a car in the 700 block of Rhonda Street in Italy. |
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Italy | $10,000 | A public report indicated a water rescue in Italy. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Italy | $10,000 | Ellis County Sheriff's Department reported a tractor trailer flipped by thunderstorm winds in the city of Italy, TX. |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Italy | $10,000 | Two people had to be rescued after high winds caved in the roof of their house, trapping them inside. |
| April 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Italy | $10,000 | A tornado briefly touched down between Italy and Bardwell doing some damage in rural areas. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Italy | $2,000 | Power poles were blown down by high winds. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Italy | $2,000 | Several tractor-trailer rigs were blown off Interstate 35 by high thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Italy | $1,000 | Trees were blown down and a stop sign was blown over. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Italy | - | Penny and Nickel sized hail was reported in the town of Italy. |
| December 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Italy | - | Brief tornado touchdown near Italy with no damage reported. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Italy | - | Trees were blown down by high winds. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Italy | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Italy | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Italy | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Italy | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Hail | Italy | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Italy | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Italy | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lumkins | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Bell Branch | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Forreston | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Milford | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Avalon | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Plum Grove | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Five Points | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Nash | 6.8 miles | 9 |
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 Italy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q977238 | 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 1338518. 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.



