Mount Vernon, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mount Vernon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75457. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle. 2,491 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 492 feet above sea level.
On record in Mount Vernon
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Franklin County Courthouse and Jaillisted 2006- Mount Vernon Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2018
- Rogers-Drummond Houselisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresMount Vernon fell from 2,662 to 2,491 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 | 2,662 | |
| 2020 | 2,491 | -171 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
32 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Mount Vernon between 1994 and 2020, burning about 421 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6114 |
| 31 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 22 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 85 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 210 |
| 22 August 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 22 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 284 |
| 31 July 2001 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 84 |
| 1 July 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 110 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 37 S / S OF FM 21 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Vernon in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mount Vernon | $2,000 | Power lines were blown down by high winds. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mount Vernon | $2,000 | Tree limbs and power lines were blown down by high winds. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Mount Vernon | - | no account filed |
| March 1995 | Hail | Mount Vernon | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Mount Vernon | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Mount Vernon | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Mount Vernon | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Mount Vernon | - | 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.
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 Mount Vernon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982527 | 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 1342121. 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.




