Seven Points, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cedar Creek Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75143. The Survey maps it on the Tool quadrangle. 1,370 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 384 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresSeven Points grew from 1,145 to 1,370 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 | 1,145 | |
| 2010 | 1,455 | +310 (+27%) |
| 2020 | 1,370 | -85 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1920 USGS Kemp quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Kemp quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tool quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Corsicana quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
107 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Seven Points between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,911 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning | 46 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011-396 |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MEADOW HEATH |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SPFD |
| 4 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCFALL |
| 25 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BEDFORDS BEND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Seven Points: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jomac Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seven Points in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1993 | Hail | Seven Points | $50,000 | A severe thunderstorm from southern Kaufman County near Kemp to Seven Points in northern Henderson County, moved eastward to just north of Athens producing widespread hail damage across the northern part of Henderson County. Several hundred homes received hail damage, with numerous cars, trucks and signs also damaged. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seven Points | $500 | A mobile home was damaged on one side by high winds. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Seven Points | - | A mobile home was damaged on one side by high winds. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Seven Points | - | A mobile home was damaged on one side by high winds. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Seven Points | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aley | 2.3 miles | 9 | |
| Harmony | 2.9 miles | 9 | |
| Gun Barrel City | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Tool | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Buffalo | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Enchanted Oaks | 6.7 miles | 14 | |
| Payne Springs | 8.3 miles | 14 | |
| Pauline | 8.5 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 Seven Points | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982180 | 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 1379057. 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.





