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Tom Bean, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75489. The Survey maps it on the Whitewright quadrangle. 930 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Tom Bean within Grayson County

Population over time

2 figures

Tom Bean fell from 1,045 to 930 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
20101,045
2020930-115 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

114 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Tom Bean between 2005 and 2020, burning about 744 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGF
7 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKATY ROAD FIRE
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGF
4 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-197
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILD ROAD FIRE
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 11 FIRE
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2750 OLD IDA RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tom Bean in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 22 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2026HailTom Bean$40,000Emergency manager reported golf ball size and larger hail in Tom Bean. Trees and cars were damaged by the hail.
April 2026HailTom Bean$15,000A photo showed hail stones between 2 and 2.25 inches in diameter just east of Tom Bean. Damage to cars and home windows were also reported.
May 2009HailTom Bean$15,000Golfball to Baseball size hail fell in Tom Bean. The hail damaged vehicles.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTom Bean$10,000Damage was reported to a property on Meadows Estate St southwest of Tom Beam. Garage doors were damaged and other loose outdoor objects were moved over 300 feet to the east.
April 2018HailTom Bean$10,000A social media report indicated golfball sized hail in the city of Tom Bean, TX.
March 2025HailTom Bean$7,000Emergency manager reported golf ball sized hail 1 mile north of Tom Bean.
May 2009HailTom Bean$4,000Hen Egg size hail fell one half mile west of Tom Bean.
April 2026HailTom Bean-Amateur radio operator reported 1.5 inch hail in Tom Bean.
March 2025HailTom Bean-Emergency Management reported quarter sized hail in Tom Bean.
June 2025HailTom Bean-Emergency management reported light coverage of hail up to quarter-size one mile north of Tom Bean.
March 2022HailTom Bean-A public report indicated quarter sized hail in Tom Bean, TX.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindTom Bean-A storm chaser reported trees uprooted immediately south of the city of Tom Bean, TX.
April 2018HailTom Bean-Emergency management reported quarter-sized hail in the city of Tom Bean, TX.
April 2018HailTom Bean-Amateur radio reported half-dollar sized hail in the city of Tom Bean, TX.
April 2016HailTom Bean-Nickel sized hail was reported in Tom Bean.
March 2013HailTom Bean-Amateur radio operators reported nickel sized hail near the community of Tom Bean.
March 2013HailTom Bean-Amateur radio operators reported the hail grew to the size of quarters near the community of Tom Bean.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindTom Bean-Large tree limbs were blown down near Tom Bean.
April 2005HailTom Bean-Report relayed by Norman Weather Forecast Office.
April 2000Flash FloodTom Bean-A water crossing was flooded by heavy thunderstorm rains.
June 1997HailTom Bean-Tangerine size hail was reported.
August 1994HailTom Bean-Trees were blown down onto cars at a church.
April 2005HailTom Bean-no account filed
April 2000HailTom Bean-no account filed
January 1999HailTom Bean-no account filed
August 1994HailTom Bean-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grayson 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
White Mound1.4 miles12
Kentucky Town2.4 miles7
Whiterock3.0 miles7
Ida3.8 miles7
Whitewright4.9 miles7
Luella4.9 miles12
Canaan5.0 miles7
Cannon5.6 miles7

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 Tom BeanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980306The 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 1369993. 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.