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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.

Kirvin within Freestone County

Population over time

2 figures

Kirvin 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.

YearPeople Change
2010129
2020101-28 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

83 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning32
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
28 September 2008Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2015Arson/incendiarism25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRAS FIRE
19 September 2007Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
15 September 2006Smoking7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID GRASSFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Freestone County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2006Flash FloodKirvin1 killed, $12,000A 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 2011HailKirvin$3,000no account filed
April 2025HailKirvin-Emergency manager reported ping pong ball size hail on FM 27 south of Kirvin.
May 2015Tornado (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 2000HailKirvin-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindKirvin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Freestone 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
Cotton Gin6.1 miles8
Rhode Island6.2 miles7
Simsboro6.4 miles8
Wortham7.2 miles7
Streetman7.7 miles9
Stewards Mill7.9 miles7
Fairfield9.2 miles8
Teague9.9 miles8

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 KirvinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978392The 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.