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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.

Italy within Ellis County

Population over time

2 figures

Italy 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,863
20201,926+63 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

15 since 2006

Regional 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 burning7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
20 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
12 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service011-197
5 August 2014Debris and open burning9.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
17 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
12 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use46 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREYROSA RANCH FIRE
23 July 2017Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1580 N HWY 77 FIRE
17 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

21 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2021HailItaly$20,000,000no account filed
March 2004Tornado (F1)Italy$150,000A 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 2019Thunderstorm WindItaly$20,000The 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 2012Thunderstorm WindItaly$15,000A power pole fell onto a car in the 700 block of Rhonda Street in Italy.
May 2024Flash FloodItaly$10,000A public report indicated a water rescue in Italy.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindItaly$10,000Ellis County Sheriff's Department reported a tractor trailer flipped by thunderstorm winds in the city of Italy, TX.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindItaly$10,000Two people had to be rescued after high winds caved in the roof of their house, trapping them inside.
April 1995Tornado (F0)Italy$10,000A tornado briefly touched down between Italy and Bardwell doing some damage in rural areas.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindItaly$2,000Power poles were blown down by high winds.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindItaly$2,000Several tractor-trailer rigs were blown off Interstate 35 by high thunderstorm winds.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindItaly$1,000Trees were blown down and a stop sign was blown over.
May 2010HailItaly-Penny and Nickel sized hail was reported in the town of Italy.
December 2002Tornado (F0)Italy-Brief tornado touchdown near Italy with no damage reported.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindItaly-Trees were blown down by high winds.
May 2024HailItaly-no account filed
June 2023HailItaly-no account filed
April 2011HailItaly-no account filed
April 1998HailItaly-no account filed
October 1996HailItaly-no account filed
June 1994HailItaly-no account filed
April 1993HailItaly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Lumkins4.3 miles9
Bell Branch4.6 miles10
Forreston5.1 miles9
Milford5.2 miles8
Avalon5.2 miles9
Plum Grove5.6 miles10
Five Points6.6 miles11
Nash6.8 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 ItalyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977238The 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.