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Randolph, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bonham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75490. It stands on Valley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle. 258 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

Randolph within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

117 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Randolph between 2006 and 2020, burning about 684 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning64
Equipment and vehicle use23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

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 2013Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRANDOLPH GRASS FIRE
7 September 2007Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
13 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
13 September 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3057 CR 4245

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Randolph in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 3 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
June 2012Thunderstorm WindRandolph3 hurt, $600,000Damaging downburst winds between 70 to 95 mph caused damage along a line from approximately 1.5 miles north of Randolph to 2 miles east-southeast of Leonard. Many trees were snapped or uprooted along the path and several barns and outbuildings either lost much of their roofs or were overturned. Four manufactured homes were rolled over along the path of destructive winds, and a few more homes sustained damage to the roofs and/or siding. The homes that rolled over were located near FM 1553 and CR 4709 north of Leonard, near CR 4860 and 4855 east of Leonard, and two homes rolled over on CR 4851 east of Leonard. A total of three people were injured from the rolling homes. In addition, the roofs of several buildings in Randolph were partially torn off.
June 2012Tornado (EF0)Randolph$50,000A brief EF-0 tornado occurred approximately one mile north of Randolph near the intersection of CR 4145 and CR 4160. The tornado caused minor damage to at least one home, large trees, barns, and crops. The maximum winds in the tornado were estimated to be 85 mph.
April 2005HailRandolph$2,000Golf ball size hail fell, damaging several cars and knocking out at least one windshield. Roofs were also damaged.
March 2025HailRandolph-Reported via mPING in Randolph.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRandolph-A trained spotter reported multiple large trees down.
April 2023HailRandolph-Amateur radio reported 1-inch diameter hail in Randolph, TX.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindRandolph-A 61 mph wind gust was reported 6 miles north of Leonard.
May 2019HailRandolph-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail approximately 6 miles northeast of the city of Trenton, TX.
June 2019HailRandolph-Trained spotter reported quarter size hail near Randolph.
August 2017Flash FloodRandolph-Emergency management reported one home flooded north of the city of Leonard, TX.
September 2006FloodRandolph-Water over highways 121 and 11 was reported. Roads were passable.
May 1999HailRandolph-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Union Hill2.0 miles6
Edhube3.5 miles6
Rogers4.0 miles6
Ely4.2 miles7
Orangeville4.6 miles6
Enterprise5.8 miles7
Bailey5.8 miles6
Trenton5.9 miles6

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 RandolphAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7291773The 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 1366003. 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.