Kirvin, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Wortham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75848. It stands on White Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kirvin quadrangle. 101 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 463 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKirvin fell from 129 to 101 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 | 129 | |
| 2020 | 101 | -28 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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
- 1963 USGS Kirvin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mexia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
83 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Kirvin between 2005 and 2020, burning about 738 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRAS FIRE |
| 19 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 15 September 2006 | Smoking | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTUAL AID GRASSFIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirvin in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2006 | Flash Flood | Kirvin | 1 killed, $12,000 | A car stalled in rising flood waters Friday night as heavy rains accompanied thunderstorms. The passengers all managed to get out of the car but were immediately swept away. The woman who was driving and her daughter made it to safety, but the other passenger, a small boy, was not found until several days later. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Kirvin | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Kirvin | - | Emergency manager reported ping pong ball size hail on FM 27 south of Kirvin. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Kirvin | - | Trained spotters observed a brief tornado near Kirvin. The spotters reported the tornado was producing damage for less than two minutes, as it moved across open farmland. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Kirvin | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirvin | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cotton Gin | 6.1 miles | 8 | |
| Rhode Island | 6.2 miles | 7 | |
| Simsboro | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Wortham | 7.2 miles | 7 | |
| Streetman | 7.7 miles | 9 | |
| Stewards Mill | 7.9 miles | 7 | |
| Fairfield | 9.2 miles | 8 | |
| Teague | 9.9 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 Kirvin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q978392 | 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 1339166. 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.



