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As of March 16, 2024, the Smokehouse Creek fire has destroyed at least 30 houses in the town of Canadian, Texas, and over 100 houses in Hutchinson County, Texas.[15] At least 11,000 people were left without power following the destruction of power lines and miscellaneous infrastructure. Two fatalities, Joyce Blankenship from Stinnett, Texas ...
Jasper County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 32,980. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Jasper. [ 2 ] The county was created as a municipality in Mexico in 1834, and in 1837 was organized as a county in the Republic of Texas. [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] It is named for William Jasper, an American ...
Jasper is a city in and the county seat of Jasper County, Texas, United States. [5] Its population was 6,884 at the 2020 U.S. Census , [ 6 ] down from 7,590 at the 2010 U.S. Census . Jasper is situated in the Deep East Texas subregion, about 40 miles (64 km) west of the Texas-Louisiana state line.
The Beaufort County Detention Center, located at 106 Ribaut Road, was housing over 30 inmates from the neighboring Jasper County after a fire at their jail facilities in September.
A grass fire burning houses in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas. The 2022 Texas Wildfires are a series of wildfires occurring in 2022 in the state of Texas. They include 371 individual fires occurring throughout Texas. [1] A total of 210,045 acres were burned in the 2022 Texas wildfires according to the Texas A&M Forest Service, with the largest ...
James Byrd Jr. was born on May 2, 1949, in Jasper County, Texas, the third of nine children, to Stella Mae Sharp (1925–2010) and James Byrd Sr. (1925–2020). [11] His mother was a Sunday School teacher and his father was a deacon at the Greater New Bethel Church. Byrd graduated from Jasper Rowe High School in 1967, the last segregated class ...
Nov. 8—Jasper County has a new website that allows easier navigation for users who want to access the most commonly sought out services. The new website — www.jasperia.org — officially ...
Jasper County authorities received the tip on Sept. 20 from a person claiming an acquaintance had confessed to killing his two children and burning their bodies in a backyard fire pit of a home in ...