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Perrin, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Perrin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76486. The Survey maps it on the Perrin quadrangle. 346 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.

Perrin within Jack County

Population over time

2 figures

Perrin fell from 398 to 346 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
2010398
2020346-52 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

77 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Perrin between 2005 and 2020, burning about 9,563 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism16
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2

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
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism450 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2005Arson/incendiarism15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2005Arson/incendiarism200 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 August 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2006Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jack County

Storms near this place

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perrin in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 21 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2009Tornado (EF1)Perrin$20,000A slow moving tornadic cell produced a second tornado northwest of Perrin. Roofs and outbuildings were damaged near Perrin.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPerrin$15,000Barn destroyed and blown into a house.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindPerrin$10,000Metal and lightweight structures sustained damage in Perrin.
May 2020HailPerrin$10,000A public report indicated golf ball sized hail approximately 1 mile east of the city of Perrin, TX on FM 2210.
March 2017HailPerrin$5,000Emergency Management reported golf ball sized hail near the intersection of FM 2210 and Pump Station Road; approximately 3 miles northwest of Perrin, TX.
June 2009HailPerrin$3,000Golfball size hail was reported in Perrin.
June 2009HailPerrin$3,000Golfball size hail was reported near Perrin.
October 1998Thunderstorm WindPerrin$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines just east of town.
April 2016Flash FloodPerrin-Jack County Sheriff's Department reported U.S. Highway 281 just south of Perrin was flooded due to the heavy rainfall.
June 2014HailPerrin-A CoCoRaHS observer reported ping pong ball sized hail near Perrin.
April 2011HailPerrin-Penny size hail was reported 3 miles east-northeast of Perrin.
June 2007Flash FloodPerrin-Water was reported over Highways 281 and 199.
June 2006Flash FloodPerrin-Flooding was reported on Highway 281.
December 2006Funnel CloudPerrin-Funnel cloud spotted but not a confirmed tornado. No damage was reported.
April 2006HailPerrin-no account filed
June 2006HailPerrin-no account filed
May 2005HailPerrin-no account filed
April 2002HailPerrin-no account filed
March 2001HailPerrin-no account filed
October 2001HailPerrin-no account filed
October 2001HailPerrin-no account filed
December 1999HailPerrin-no account filed
May 1998HailPerrin-no account filed
June 1998HailPerrin-no account filed
March 1997HailPerrin-no account filed
October 1996Flash FloodPerrin-no account filed
April 1995HailPerrin-no account filed
April 1995HailPerrin-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindPerrin-no account filed
April 1994HailPerrin-no account filed
May 1994HailPerrin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jack 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
Joplin5.7 miles8
Gibtown6.4 miles8
Westbrook7.3 miles8
Bartons Chapel9.1 miles8
Vineyard10.7 miles8
Wizard Wells12.6 miles8
Jacksboro13.6 miles9
Senate15.4 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 PerrinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982293The 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 1343870. 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.