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Joaquin, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Tenaha-Joaquin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75954. It stands on Cedar Branch. The Survey maps it on the Logansport West quadrangle. 734 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 226 feet above sea level.

Joaquin within Shelby County

Population over time

3 figures

Joaquin fell from 925 to 734 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
2000925
2010824-101 (-11%)
2020734-90 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Joaquin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 416 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 207
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 471
3 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 1999Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresLouisiana Office of Forestrynot named
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 332
6 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 297
30 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 476

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Joaquin in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 lightning. 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
August 2002LightningJoaquin$30,000Lightning struck a residence in town causing considerable damage.
April 1999Tornado (F2)Joaquin$15,000Minor roof damage to a few homes and outbuildings. Damage largely confined to trees uprooted or snapped. This is a continuation of the DeSoto Parish, Louisiana tornado.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindJoaquin$10,000Trees downed in town...including one that fell on a house.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindJoaquin$10,000Trees were downed including one that fell atop a home southwest of town.
March 2023HailJoaquin-Hail at least 2 inches in diameter reported just south of Joaquin via social media.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindJoaquin-Texas Electric Cooperative reported several power line poles downed near Crystal Lake on the west side of Joaquin.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindJoaquin-Shelby County emergency manager reported widespread wind damage just west of Joaquin.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindJoaquin-Large tree limbs were downed and damaged the roof of a residence on Richardson Street.
April 2020Flash FloodJoaquin-High water over Highway 84 in Joaquin. Many other streets and parking lots were also flooded in town.
May 2017HailJoaquin-A picture of ping pong ball size hail that fell in Joaquin was posted to the KSLA-TV Facebook page.
May 2015Flash FloodJoaquin-Water was across the roadway west of Joaquin on Hwy. 84.
May 2015Flash FloodJoaquin-Highway 7 East in Joaquin was flooded and closed.
November 2015Flash FloodJoaquin-Hwy. 84 near Joaquin, Texas was flooded and closed.
January 2013Flash FloodJoaquin-Portions of Hwy. 84 west of Joaquin, Texas was covered with water and closed.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindJoaquin-Several trees were downed in Joaquin, Texas.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindJoaquin-A tree was downed...blocking a road near Hwy. 7.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindJoaquin-A tree was downed blocking part of Hwy. 84 just outside of Joaquin, Texas.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindJoaquin-A tree was downed near Joaquin, Texas.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindJoaquin-A tree was downed in Joaquin, Texas just across the Sabine River in Shelby County.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindJoaquin-A few trees were blown down.
June 2003LightningJoaquin-As thunderstorms moved across the area lightning struck the J. C. Black Salt Water Disposal system setting it on fire. No injuries were reported and no amount of damages were available.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindJoaquin-Several large trees down.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindJoaquin-Several large trees toppled in town.
March 1993HailJoaquin-Hail damaged roofs and several cars. Windshields were broken out of a few.
March 2005HailJoaquin-no account filed
May 2000HailJoaquin-no account filed
May 1999HailJoaquin-no account filed
May 1997HailJoaquin-no account filed
May 1996HailJoaquin-no account filed
May 1996HailJoaquin-no account filed
March 1996HailJoaquin-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
Haslam1.4 miles13
Jackson2.2 miles13
Fellowship2.2 miles13
Paxton5.9 miles12
Antioch7.8 miles13
James8.0 miles13
North Jericho9.1 miles12
Campti9.6 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 JoaquinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981703The 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 1360274. 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.