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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.

Mount Vernon within Franklin County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Mount 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,662
20202,491-171 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

32 since 1994

Regional 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
29 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6114
31 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
22 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use85 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 210
22 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use22 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 284
31 July 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 84
1 July 1998Arson/incendiarism110 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 37 S / S OF FM 21

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

8 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1995Thunderstorm WindMount Vernon$2,000Power lines were blown down by high winds.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindMount Vernon$2,000Tree limbs and power lines were blown down by high winds.
May 1995HailMount Vernon-no account filed
March 1995HailMount Vernon-no account filed
April 1995HailMount Vernon-no account filed
May 1994HailMount Vernon-no account filed
April 1993HailMount Vernon-no account filed
April 1993HailMount Vernon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Union4.7 miles8
Majors5.9 miles9
Hopewell6.0 miles9
Purley7.1 miles9
Daphne7.3 miles8
Oakdale7.3 miles8
Lakeview7.5 miles8
Macon8.5 miles9

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 VernonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982527The 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.