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Josephine, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Nevada census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75164. The Survey maps it on the Josephine quadrangle. 2,119 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 581 feet above sea level.

Josephine within Collin County

Population over time

2 figures

Josephine grew from 812 to 2,119 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
2010812
20202,119+1,307 (+161%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

271 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Josephine between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,997 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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 burning133
Missing data/not specified/undetermined89
Equipment and vehicle use31
Natural6
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15571 CR 543 - 11076947
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 697 & COUNTY LINE
8 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service18654 CR 913 - 11075679
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceW FM 6 / N STATE HIGHWAY 78 - 14099438
30 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
27 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Josephine in 3 storm reports between 2024 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindJosephine$20,000A public report included images of partial loss of roof decking, sporadic tree damage, and a small metal outbuilding destroyed just south of the city of Josephine.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindJosephine$12,000Broadcast media reported that several homes suffered shingle and fence damage in Josephine. The public reported that similar damage was also reported in the Magnolia Point neighborhood on the south side of Josephine.
May 2024HailJosephine-Public reported 1.25 inch hail.

Every storm recorded in Collin 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
Nevada3.8 miles9
Copeville5.9 miles11
Lavon7.1 miles11
Millwood7.4 miles16
Farmersville7.6 miles10
Deep Water Point Estates7.7 miles11
New Mesquite7.7 miles11
Pebble Beach Sunset Acres7.8 miles11

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 JosephineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q976003The 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 1338883. 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.