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Tira, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the North Hopkins-Sulphur Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75482. The Survey maps it on the Tira quadrangle. 319 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Tira within Hopkins County

Population over time

3 figures

Tira grew from 248 to 319 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.

YearPeople Change
2000248
2010297+49 (+20%)
2020319+22 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

23 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Tira between 2003 and 2019, burning about 145 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2016112
2 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7/2/14 TX SH 154 GRASS FIRE
27 June 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service6/26/14 FM 1529 N GRASS FIRE
24 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2016103
19 June 2006Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 June 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 April 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tira: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. 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
Birth Right Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tira in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2000Tornado (F0)Tira2 hurt, $25,000Extensive damage from a possible tornado. The damage path was apparently intermittent as it paralleled F.M. 1536 from Tira to one mile north of Nelta; a distance of around four miles. A barn was destroyed and numerous trees and fences were damaged. Minor damage was reported on two homes. Two minor injuries from flying glass were also reported.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindTira-The Hopkins County Sheriff reported a large tree down near the intersection of Hwy 19 and FM 1536 just west of Tira.
November 2015FloodTira-Multiple road closures were required in the county, mostly due to flooding along and near the Sulphur River. A few of those closings included FM 71 and FM 1571 at the Sulphur River. The sheriff's department reported additional high water problems on FM 900 between Saltillo and FM 69.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindTira-Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
September 2005HailTira-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindTira-no account filed
July 1996HailTira-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindTira-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Weir1.5 miles9
Sandhill1.7 miles9
Oak Grove1.8 miles9
Addran2.7 miles9
New Birthright3.8 miles9
Birthright3.8 miles9
Harpers Crossing (historical)4.0 miles8
Shirley4.2 miles9

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 TiraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q926344The 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 1380666. 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.