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.
Population over time
3 figuresPoint 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 792 | |
| 2010 | 820 | +28 (+4%) |
| 2020 | 745 | -75 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1956 USGS Emory quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1980 USGS Emory North quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 280 |
| 7 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 170 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CHIGGER RIDGE RANCH FIRE |
| 7 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ARBALA |
| 6 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4130 |
| 28 July 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LINDEN - 131 |
| 23 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 276 |
| 16 June 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 1151 @ CR 1146 |
| 13 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CLAYTON RANCH FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
30 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Lightning | Point | 2 hurt | Two people were injured by a lightning strike. |
| November 2022 | Hail | Point | $100,000 | A trained spotter reported baseball sized hail in Point, TX. |
| June 2016 | Flood | Point | $10,000 | Emergency 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 2015 | Flood | Point | $10,000 | Several roads remained flooded across the county after an average of 3-5 inches of heavy rainfall. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Point | $10,000 | The 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 2026 | Hail | Point | $7,000 | Amateur radio operator reported 1.75 inch hail in Point. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Point | $7,000 | Emergency management reported multiple trees down in the cities of Point and Emory along Highway 69. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Point | $5,000 | Emergency management reported a tree blown onto a home in the city of Point, TX. |
| December 2015 | Flash Flood | Point | $5,000 | Several FM and county roads were closed across the county due to flooding. Several streets in Emory were also closed. |
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Point | $5,000 | Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Point | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Point | $1,000 | A large industrial building was unroofed by high thunderstorm winds. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Point | $500 | Trees and tree limbs were down on FM 514 and needed to be cleared off the roadway. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Point | - | Amateur radio operator reported 1.25 inch hail in Point. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Point | - | Rains County Sheriff's Department reported trees blocking County Road 1520 just west of the city of Point, TX. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Point | - | 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 2016 | Hail | Point | - | A trained spotter reported dime to quarter sized hail in the town of Point, TX. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Point | - | FM 514 and several other roads were flooded. CR 4470 and CR 4480 had two to three feet of water over them. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Point | - | Water was reported over several roads in Point, and FM 1325 near Flats was also flooded. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Point | - | Occurred in East Tawakoni. |
| April 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Point | - | A brief tornado touched down in point. No reports of damage or injuries was received. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Point | - | Strong winds blew down large tree limbs. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Point | - | Strong winds blew down trees. |
| April 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Point | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported. |
| September 2011 | Hail | Point | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Point | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Point | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Point | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Point | - | no account filed |
| November 1994 | Hail | Point | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hermits Cove | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Richland | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Woosley | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Prospect | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| East Tawakoni | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Bois d'Arc | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Hooker Ridge | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| County Line | 5.4 miles | 14 |
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 Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982183 | 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 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.





