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Point, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Point census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75472. The Survey maps it on the Emory North quadrangle. 745 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 528 feet above sea level.

Point within Rains County

Population over time

3 figures

Point fell from 792 to 745 between 2000 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
2000792
2010820+28 (+4%)
2020745-75 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Point between 2005 and 2017, burning about 326 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
17 August 2005Debris and open burning60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 280
7 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined170 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHIGGER RIDGE RANCH FIRE
7 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceARBALA
6 July 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4130
28 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 131
23 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 276
16 June 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1151 @ CR 1146
13 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLAYTON RANCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rains County

Storms near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Point in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 11 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
May 2003LightningPoint2 hurtTwo people were injured by a lightning strike.
November 2022HailPoint$100,000A trained spotter reported baseball sized hail in Point, TX.
June 2016FloodPoint$10,000Emergency personnel assisted two families from their homes after they became trapped from flooding. Emergency crews initially had to cross through approximately 300 yards of water that ranged from 9 to 12 inches deep. A fire department tanker was forced to drive through another 1.5 feet of water to reach the trapped residents.
December 2015FloodPoint$10,000Several roads remained flooded across the county after an average of 3-5 inches of heavy rainfall.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindPoint$10,000The Sheriff's Office reported several trees were down across the county. Some trees were blocking roads and at least one tree fell on a house.
April 2026HailPoint$7,000Amateur radio operator reported 1.75 inch hail in Point.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindPoint$7,000Emergency management reported multiple trees down in the cities of Point and Emory along Highway 69.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindPoint$5,000Emergency management reported a tree blown onto a home in the city of Point, TX.
December 2015Flash FloodPoint$5,000Several FM and county roads were closed across the county due to flooding. Several streets in Emory were also closed.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindPoint$5,000Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindPoint$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindPoint$1,000A large industrial building was unroofed by high thunderstorm winds.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindPoint$500Trees and tree limbs were down on FM 514 and needed to be cleared off the roadway.
April 2026HailPoint-Amateur radio operator reported 1.25 inch hail in Point.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindPoint-Rains County Sheriff's Department reported trees blocking County Road 1520 just west of the city of Point, TX.
March 2019HailPoint-DPS reported quarter size hail approximately 4.5 miles west-northwest of the city of Emory, TX, near the intersection of U.S. Highway 69 and RCR 1310.
April 2016HailPoint-A trained spotter reported dime to quarter sized hail in the town of Point, TX.
June 2007Flash FloodPoint-FM 514 and several other roads were flooded. CR 4470 and CR 4480 had two to three feet of water over them.
July 2007Flash FloodPoint-Water was reported over several roads in Point, and FM 1325 near Flats was also flooded.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindPoint-Occurred in East Tawakoni.
April 1999Tornado (F0)Point-A brief tornado touched down in point. No reports of damage or injuries was received.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindPoint-Strong winds blew down large tree limbs.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindPoint-Strong winds blew down trees.
April 1995Tornado (F0)Point-A brief tornado touchdown was reported.
September 2011HailPoint-no account filed
May 2004HailPoint-no account filed
May 2003HailPoint-no account filed
May 2002HailPoint-no account filed
March 2000HailPoint-no account filed
November 1994HailPoint-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rains 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
Hermits Cove2.3 miles13
Richland2.8 miles14
Woosley3.5 miles13
Prospect4.1 miles14
East Tawakoni4.5 miles13
Bois d'Arc4.6 miles13
Hooker Ridge5.1 miles13
County Line5.4 miles14

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 PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982183The 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 1375515. 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.