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Ore City, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Ore City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75683. The Survey maps it on the Ore City quadrangle. 1,108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 328 feet above sea level.

Ore City within Upshur County

Population over time

2 figures

Ore City fell from 1,144 to 1,108 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
20101,144
20201,108-36 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 13 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

335 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 335 fires within 5 miles of Ore City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,426 acres in total. 16 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 burning192
Missing data/not specified/undetermined75
Natural16
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking6
Fireworks3

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
9 September 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service450 COMAND
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 383
7 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 450 COMMAND
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2005Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2002Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 173

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upshur County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ore City in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2003: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
November 1994Thunderstorm WindOre City$5,000,000Four homes were destroyed, 20 to 30 homes damaged, and numerous trees were downed across the county by high winds. Damage was estimated at $500,000.
June 2003Flash FloodOre City-High water across FM 852 just northwest of town.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindOre City-Trees down across Hwy 259.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindOre City-Trees and power lines toppled.
May 2003HailOre City-no account filed
January 1999HailOre City-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindOre City-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindOre City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Upshur 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
Boxwood2.1 miles12
Coffeeville2.8 miles12
Snow Hill2.9 miles12
Old Diana4.3 miles12
Stamps4.6 miles12
Cedar Springs4.8 miles13
New Mountain5.1 miles12
Diana6.4 miles12

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 Ore CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977157The 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 1343313. 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.