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.
Population over time
3 figuresJoaquin 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 925 | |
| 2010 | 824 | -101 (-11%) |
| 2020 | 734 | -90 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Center quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Logansport West quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Nacogdoches quadrangle1:100000
- 2003 USGS Logansport West quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
55 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 207 |
| 4 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 471 |
| 3 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Louisiana Office of Forestry | not named |
| 7 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 332 |
| 6 August 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 297 |
| 30 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 476 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
31 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2002 | Lightning | Joaquin | $30,000 | Lightning struck a residence in town causing considerable damage. |
| April 1999 | Tornado (F2) | Joaquin | $15,000 | Minor 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joaquin | $10,000 | Trees downed in town...including one that fell on a house. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joaquin | $10,000 | Trees were downed including one that fell atop a home southwest of town. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Joaquin | - | Hail at least 2 inches in diameter reported just south of Joaquin via social media. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joaquin | - | Texas Electric Cooperative reported several power line poles downed near Crystal Lake on the west side of Joaquin. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joaquin | - | Shelby County emergency manager reported widespread wind damage just west of Joaquin. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joaquin | - | Large tree limbs were downed and damaged the roof of a residence on Richardson Street. |
| April 2020 | Flash Flood | Joaquin | - | High water over Highway 84 in Joaquin. Many other streets and parking lots were also flooded in town. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Joaquin | - | A picture of ping pong ball size hail that fell in Joaquin was posted to the KSLA-TV Facebook page. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Joaquin | - | Water was across the roadway west of Joaquin on Hwy. 84. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Joaquin | - | Highway 7 East in Joaquin was flooded and closed. |
| November 2015 | Flash Flood | Joaquin | - | Hwy. 84 near Joaquin, Texas was flooded and closed. |
| January 2013 | Flash Flood | Joaquin | - | Portions of Hwy. 84 west of Joaquin, Texas was covered with water and closed. |
| March 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joaquin | - | Several trees were downed in Joaquin, Texas. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joaquin | - | A tree was downed...blocking a road near Hwy. 7. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joaquin | - | A tree was downed blocking part of Hwy. 84 just outside of Joaquin, Texas. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joaquin | - | A tree was downed near Joaquin, Texas. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joaquin | - | A tree was downed in Joaquin, Texas just across the Sabine River in Shelby County. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joaquin | - | A few trees were blown down. |
| June 2003 | Lightning | Joaquin | - | 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joaquin | - | Several large trees down. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Joaquin | - | Several large trees toppled in town. |
| March 1993 | Hail | Joaquin | - | Hail damaged roofs and several cars. Windshields were broken out of a few. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Joaquin | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Joaquin | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Joaquin | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Joaquin | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Joaquin | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Joaquin | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Joaquin | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haslam | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Jackson | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Fellowship | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Paxton | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Antioch | 7.8 miles | 13 | |
| James | 8.0 miles | 13 | |
| North Jericho | 9.1 miles | 12 | |
| Campti | 9.6 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 Joaquin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981703 | 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 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.







