Jewett, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Buffalo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75846. It stands on Sand Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jewett quadrangle. 793 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 492 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresJewett fell from 1,167 to 793 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 | 1,167 | |
| 2020 | 793 | -374 (-32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Jewett quadrangle1:62500
- 1965 USGS Jewett quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Marlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Jewett between 2002 and 2015, burning about 311 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 346 |
| 26 September 2011 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD 581 FIRE |
| 26 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 156 |
| 31 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 254 |
| 28 June 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 45 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4011 |
| 18 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 164 & 39 |
| 14 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONTROL BURN LCR 850 & LCR 846 |
| 17 February 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 39 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jewett in 27 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Jewett | $350,000 | High water damaged FM 1146 and CR 339. FM 1146 was completely washed out just past Mill Creek Road, and the culverts on CR 339 were washed out and had to be replaced. The repairs for FM 1146 cost $223,357. |
| May 2025 | Tornado (EF1) | Jewett | $100,000 | An EF-1 tornado touched down west of Jewett near CR 336 and Division Street, and moved east-southeast through the town before traveling east several miles outside of town. In Jewett, several trees were damaged or blown down and some homes suffered roof and minor exterior damage on Harrison Street, Dashiel Street, and Broadway Street. The worst damage occurred along Hwy 79 where an auto repair shop lost its roof, and east of Hwy 79 where many trees were snapped and uprooted near Robinson Lane. This area was rated EF-1 with 105 mph max winds. Visually, tree damage could be seen extending east of Robinson Lane, but the area was inaccessible to the survey team. However, satellite imagery provided additional information to extend the track farther east of town. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jewett | $60,000 | Strong winds damaged the high school and houses, and blew down trees. |
| February 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jewett | $10,000 | Amateur radio reported that several 40 plus feet tall pine trees were blown over, and the front wall of a double-wide wide was torn from the structure off County Road 431. |
| October 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jewett | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees on Blackjack Street in Jewett. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jewett | $3,000 | Sixty MPH winds were estimated in Jewett. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jewett | $3,000 | Power lines blown down. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jewett | $500 | A couple of trees were knocked down in Jewett. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jewett | $200 | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jewett | - | On the south end of Jewett, outside the tornado track, large tree limbs were broken and some trees were uprooted. |
| December 2015 | Flash Flood | Jewett | - | Roads were closed in Jewett due to flood waters. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Jewett | - | Quarter sized hail fell on Highway 79, approximately halfway between Jewett and Buffalo. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jewett | - | Trees were down near Jewett. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Jewett | - | Golf ball size hail fell. |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jewett | - | Trees were blown down by high winds. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jewett | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jewett | - | Large tree limbs were blown down by high winds. |
| December 2001 | Flash Flood | Jewett | - | Highway 9 at Jewett was covered with high water. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Jewett | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Jewett | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Jewett | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Jewett | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jewett | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Jewett | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Jewett | - | no account filed |
| December 1997 | Hail | Jewett | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Jewett | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newby | 1.8 miles | 8 | |
| North Salem | 4.9 miles | 8 | |
| Friendship | 5.0 miles | 8 | |
| Concord | 7.2 miles | 8 | |
| Robbins | 7.4 miles | 8 | |
| South Salem | 7.5 miles | 8 | |
| Corinth | 7.5 miles | 8 | |
| Long Hollow | 8.0 miles | 8 |
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 Jewett | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q979110 | 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 1360250. 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.




