New Summerfield, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the New Summerfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75780. It lies near Gill Mountain. The Survey maps it on the New Summerfield quadrangle. 843 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 472 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNew Summerfield fell from 1,111 to 843 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 | 1,111 | |
| 2020 | 843 | -268 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1943 USGS Rusk quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Rusk quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS New Summerfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
264 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of New Summerfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,382 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 15 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 burning | 164 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Smoking | 14 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 110 |
| 7 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 4221 GRASS FIRE |
| 6 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 856 AND CR 4716 |
| 3 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 4222 |
| 25 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 397 PENNY LANE |
| 25 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 715 CR 4227 |
| 25 September 2012 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 79&110 |
| 24 September 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Summerfield in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 8 hail, 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Summerfield | - | Numerous trees were downed across the northern portions of Cherokee County. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Summerfield | - | Numerous trees were downed throughout much of Cherokee County. |
| May 2016 | Hail | New Summerfield | - | Dime size hail fell on Stallings Road just west of the New Summerfield community. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Summerfield | - | A tree was downed on Hwy. 79 around New Summerfield, Texas. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Summerfield | - | Trees were downed on the west side of New Summerfield on Hwy. 79 east of the Mud Creek bridge. |
| April 2010 | Hail | New Summerfield | - | Nickel sized hail was reported in New Summerfield, Texas. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Summerfield | - | One tree down along Hwy. 110 just south of town. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Summerfield | - | Several trees were blown down across Hwy 110. |
| February 2008 | Hail | New Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | New Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | New Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | New Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Hail | New Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | New Summerfield | - | 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 New Summerfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q978834 | 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 1342512. 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.






