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Yantis, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Quitman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75497. The Survey maps it on the Yantis quadrangle. 405 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 486 feet above sea level.

Yantis within Wood County

Population over time

2 figures

Yantis grew from 388 to 405 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
2010388
2020405+17 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

343 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 343 fires within 5 miles of Yantis between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,041 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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 burning257
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use26
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
8 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service09082011B
7 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9072012
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09072011B
6 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1483
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR.1819

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wood 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 Yantis: 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
West Yantis Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Wood County

Storms near this place

38 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yantis in 38 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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
October 1993Thunderstorm WindYantis$500,000Several houses were destroyed, and mobile homes blown over by a strong downburst.
October 1993HailYantis$500,000Heavy roof and window damage were reported from large hail.
June 1994HailYantis$50,000Golf ball-size hail damaged car in Yantis during a morning thunderstorm.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindYantis$10,000Several trees were downed and a barn destroyed just north of Yantis, Texas.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindYantis$5,000Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds in Yantis.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindYantis$5,000Trees were blown down by high winds.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Yantis$1,000A NWS Storm Survey and eyewitnesses confirmed that an EF-0 tornado with maximum estimated winds near 80 mph touched down near the intersection of FM 515 and FM 17 where tin was lifted and peeled back from a trailer. The tornado then moved in a east-northeast direction crossing over the west fork of Lake Fork Reservoir as a waterspout and then crossed back over land as a tornado near FM 515 where several trees were snapped and uprooted. Large limbs were downed along County Road 1917 with additional trees uprooted in a pasture along County Road 1900 where the tornado lifted just southwest of the Yantis community.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindYantis$1,000Several trees were toppled including one tree that fell across a shed.
January 1993Thunderstorm WindYantis$500Trees were downed.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindYantis-Trees downed on multiple county roads in and around the Yantis community.
October 2023Thunderstorm WindYantis-Trees downed across Highway 154.
August 2022Flash FloodYantis-Flooding reported on County Road 1513 and County Road 1560.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindYantis-Trees were downed in Yantis.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindYantis-Trees were snapped. A roof was blown off of a building. Report from mPING.
March 2021HailYantis-Pictures were posted to social media of golf ball size hail that fell and shattered a windshield of a vehicle at the Yantis Food Mart.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindYantis-A tree was blown down on County Road 1840 just southeast of Yantis.
January 2019FloodYantis-Moderate flooding continued along the Sabine River in East Texas during the first half of January 2019, in response to widespread heavy rainfall that fell across the basin throughout much of December. The Sabine River near Mineola reached the 18 foot moderate flood stage at 11 am on January 3rd, and crested near 18.6 feet at 2 pm on the 5th. The Sabine River near Mineola fell back below the moderate flood stage at 5 am on January 7th, but remained in minor flood through the third week of the month. The flooding resulted in FM 1804 from the Smith/Wood County line north to Highway 80 to be closed until mid-morning on January 14th. ||In addition, Lake Fork Creek just southwest of Quitman remained near or slightly above flood stage to start January, with another round of heavy rainfall of one to two inches contributing to a second crest to near 17.9 feet at 230 am on the 4th. This resulted in FM 1254 remaining closed due to flooding at the Lake Fork Creek bridge between Loop 564 near Mineola and FM 778 southeast of Quitman through the early morning hours on January 8th, when Lake Fork Creek finally fell back below flood stage.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindYantis-Trees were blown down in Yantis.
January 2018HailYantis-Golfball sized hail fell in Yantis.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindYantis-A couple of trees were blown down in Yantis.
December 2018FloodYantis-Widespread heavy rainfall of two to four inches fell across the Upper Sabine River Basin of Northeast Texas on December 26th-27th, atop already saturated grounds where rainfall amounts of five to seven inches fell during the month of December. The associated runoff resulted in the Sabine River near Mineola to rise above its 14 foot flood stage by 730 am on the 27th, where it neared the 18 foot moderate flood stage around 9 am on the 30th. This resulted in FM 1804 from the Smith/Wood County line north to Highway 80 to be closed due to flooding. ||In addition, Lake Fork Creek just southwest of Quitman also rose above its 16 foot flood stage around 10 pm on the 27th, and neared the 18 foot moderate flood stage around 2 pm on the 28th, before falling back to near flood stage by midnight on the 31st. This resulted in FM 1254 being closed due to flooding at the Lake Fork Creek bridge between Loop 564 near Mineola and FM 778 southeast of Quitman.
April 2016Flash FloodYantis-Numerous county roads were flooded.
April 2015HailYantis-Hail was reported in and around the town of Yantis, Texas and Lake Fork.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindYantis-Numerous trees and powerlines were downed in the Yantis community.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindYantis-Trees were downed on FM 17 and also on CR 1912.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindYantis-Trees were downed in the western side of town.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindYantis-A tree was down in the northwest part of the county.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindYantis-Trees were downed.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindYantis-Trees downed.
November 1994HailYantis-Trees were blown down by high winds.
October 2010HailYantis-no account filed
July 2009HailYantis-no account filed
May 2006HailYantis-no account filed
May 2003HailYantis-no account filed
March 1999HailYantis-no account filed
May 1999HailYantis-no account filed
May 1999HailYantis-no account filed
May 1999HailYantis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wood 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
Gilbreth2.5 miles15
Gamblin2.7 miles15
Gunter5.1 miles15
Coke7.4 miles12
Salem7.6 miles16
Pleasant Grove9.4 miles12
Alba10.0 miles15
Forest Hill10.5 miles13

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 YantisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981410The 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 1350640. 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.