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Reklaw, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1992. It lies in ZIP code area 75784. It stands on White Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Reklaw quadrangle. 332 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 305 feet above sea level.

Reklaw within Rusk County

Population over time

2 figures

Reklaw fell from 379 to 332 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
2010379
2020332-47 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

169 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Reklaw between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,629 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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 burning116
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined256 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1218 FIRE
7 September 2009Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 207
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 486
5 September 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 214
4 September 2010Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service026-10
27 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 299
26 September 2015Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7118

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reklaw in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 tornado. 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
May 1994Thunderstorm WindReklaw$50,000Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
December 2017Thunderstorm WindReklaw$10,000Multiple trees were uprooted and all lying to the northeast along White Oak Road in Reklaw. A nearby utility barn sustained severe damage.
June 2024HailReklaw-Quarter size reported near Reklaw.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindReklaw-A tree was blown down in Reklaw.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindReklaw-Power lines were downed in Reklaw.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindReklaw-A tree was blown down on CR 4255.
April 2019Tornado (EF3)Reklaw-This is a continuation of the Cherokee and Northwest Nacogdoches County tornado that tore through the Alto and Sacul communities. This tornado crossed County Roads 4265 and 4238 in extreme Southern Rusk County, where numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado continued northeast across the East Fork Angelina River, Highway 84, and County Road 4233, where it began to weaken as much of the damage over these areas consisted of snapped large limbs. The tornado finally lifted on County Road 4233 near the intersection of FM 2753. The maximum estimated winds in Southern Rusk County was near 105 mph primarily in the area of County Roads 4265 and 4238.
May 2019Flash FloodReklaw-Highway 84 was closed in Reklaw due to high water. A high water rescue was needed for a stranded vehicle on White Oak Road. No injuries were reported.
December 2017Flash FloodReklaw-High water covered Highway 84 near County Road 204.
July 2007Flash FloodReklaw-Hwy. 84 had to be closed due to high water across the roadway.
March 2002Tornado (F1)Reklaw-Damage was confined to felled pine trees, broken tree tops and tree limbs. This tornado continued from Cherokee County, TX.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindReklaw-Several trees and power lines down.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindReklaw-Thunderstorm winds blew down two trees.
February 1993HailReklaw-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
Fairview4.3 miles11
New Salem5.6 miles11
Anadarko7.4 miles11
Glenfawn7.8 miles11
Freeneytown8.8 miles11
Valley Grove9.6 miles11
McKnight10.7 miles13
Zion Grove10.9 miles11

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 ReklawAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969859The 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 1375694. 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.