Aldine, Texas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. The Survey maps it on the Aldine quadrangle. 15,999 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 75 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAldine grew from 15,869 to 15,999 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 15,869 | |
| 2020 | 15,999 | +130 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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.
- 1916 USGS Aldine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1919 USGS Aldine quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Aldine quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Aldine quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Aldine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Aldine quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
48 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Aldine between 1993 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | B032, E032, E084 |
| 4 August 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | E058 |
| 20 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 743 |
| 18 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | E064 |
| 9 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | E058 |
| 8 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | E084 |
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 Aldine: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sand |
Storms near this place
25 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aldine in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2014: 11 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2004 | Lightning | Aldine | 1 hurt | 17 year old male injured in front of Aldine High School. Victim was sitting on a bench next to a nearby tree that was struck by lightning. |
| November 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Aldine | $300,000 | Tornado traveled NE with damage reported from the High Meadows Subdivision to the intersection of Reality and Otterbury. MacArthur 9th grade school suffered significant damage with westward-facing second story wall collapsing inward, destroying a row of lockers. A 40x40 foot brick facade was ripped from the exterior wall with interior debris littering a nearby soccer field. Several collapsed garage awnings and downed large tree limbs in the High Meadows Subdivision. Two local auto supply stores had damage with their rooftop air conditioning units and satellite dishes blown off. |
| April 2000 | Hail | Aldine | $100,000 | Golfball sized hail at I-45 and West Rd. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Aldine | $75,000 | Numerous flooded vehicles. An estimated 100-plus vehicles trapped due to impassable Interstate 45 feeder road flooding. Flooded vehicles near Kirkwood Road and Briar Forest Drive. Streets were flooded and impassable along Aldine-Bender Road northbound. |
| June 1996 | Lightning | Aldine | $75,000 | no account filed |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aldine | $55,000 | Billboard signs down. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Aldine | $50,000 | Quarter sized hail reported at I-45 and FM 249. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Aldine | $40,000 | Golfball-size hail reported (Key Map 412) |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Aldine | $15,000 | Flooded and impassable streets near Interstate 45 and Gulf Bank Road. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aldine | $12,000 | There were trees downed on roads, power lines, and over an apartment complex. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Aldine | $10,000 | Flooding in the Aldine area. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Aldine | $10,000 | Dime size hail at Beltway 8 and The Hardy Toll Road. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Aldine | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aldine | $8,000 | A couple of trees down. |
| October 2008 | Hail | Aldine | $5,000 | Golf ball size hail occurred at the intersection of Beltway 8 North and the Hardy Toll Road. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aldine | $5,000 | 70 mph gust reported at I-45 & Beltway 8. |
| April 1997 | Hail | Aldine | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Aldine | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Aldine | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aldine | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Aldine | $4,000 | Penny size hail near West Road. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aldine | $3,000 | Trees down near the intersection of FM 1960 and Atascosita. |
| November 2003 | Flash Flood | Aldine | $3,000 | Flooding in and around Aldine |
| February 1999 | Hail | Aldine | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Aldine | - | Viewed on Houston Metro traffic cameras. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aldine Meadows | 0.3 miles | 17 | |
| Greenbranch | 1.0 miles | 18 | |
| Greenbriar Colony | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Imperial Valley | 1.4 miles | 18 | |
| Aldine Place | 1.5 miles | 17 | |
| Traweek Gardens | 1.6 miles | 18 | |
| Central Green | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Airline Terrace | 1.9 miles | 18 |
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 Aldine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972657 | 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 1350960. 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.









