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Queen City, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Atlanta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75572. The Survey maps it on the Atlanta North quadrangle. 1,397 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 358 feet above sea level.

Queen City within Cass County

On record in Queen City

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Queen City fell from 1,476 to 1,397 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
20101,476
20201,397-79 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

300 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 300 fires within 5 miles of Queen City between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,007 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 24 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 burning177
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use16
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013148
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011179
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011177
5 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010159
30 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 178
29 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAINEY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Queen City: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
AtlantaIronUnknown
Atlanta DepositIronPast ProducerGoethite, Hematite

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Queen City in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 tornado, 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
July 2008Thunderstorm WindQueen City$8,000An awning was torn off a home on Farm to Market 2328 just north of Queen City, Texas. Windows were blown out of the home as well.
April 2010Tornado (EF0)Queen City$5,000An EF0 tornado touched down on the west side of Queen City at around 7:41 PM CDT, about one mile west of Queen City, along Highway 96, where it uprooted a large tree. The tornado proceeded into Queen City where it caused damage to several large tree limbs and branches and caused moderate damage to the roof of a building. This tornado then exited Cass County, Texas and moved into Miller County, Arkansas.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindQueen City$5,000Numerous trees were blown down by strong winds.
April 2024HailQueen City-Quarter size hail reported in Queen City.
April 2022HailQueen City-Penny size hail fell in Queen City.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindQueen City-A picture was posted to Twitter of a tree that was blown down onto a home and a car on Farm to Market Road 36 in Queen City.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindQueen City-Trees were blown down on Highway 251 between Queen City and Bloomburg.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindQueen City-Trees were downed on Hwy. 59 south of Atlanta, Texas.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindQueen City-Several trees were downed in town.
April 2004HailQueen City-Hail lasted 15 minutes and covered the ground in Atlanta.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindQueen City-Trees downed.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Queen City-A strong thunderstorm moved rapidly southeast across McCurtain County, OK into Bowie and Cass County, TX. This thunderstorm also produced a strong microburst in McCurtain County southwest of Idabel, OK and again southeast of Maud, TX located in Bowie County. Numerous small trees and limbs were either snapped or pushed over along the track. No homes or other structures were in the direct path of this tornado.
May 1998Flash FloodQueen City-Hwy 59 closed due to high water.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindQueen City-Trees were toppled and 2 inches of rain was reported in a 35 minute period.
January 1995Thunderstorm WindQueen City-Trees were damaged by high winds.
January 1999HailQueen City-no account filed
February 1998HailQueen City-no account filed
April 1994HailQueen City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Lanark2.3 miles13
Atlanta2.5 miles12
Bloomburg5.0 miles12
Cass5.6 miles12
New Liberty5.9 miles10
Springdale5.9 miles13
Smyrna6.0 miles13
Antioch6.1 miles10

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 Queen CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982014The 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 1344651. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.