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Alfred, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Orange Grove-Sandia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78332. It stands on Ruces Creek. The Survey maps it on the Orange Grove quadrangle. 82 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 164 feet above sea level.

Alfred within Jim Wells County

Population over time

2 figures

Alfred fell from 91 to 82 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
201091
202082-9 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys

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

83 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Alfred between 2007 and 2020, burning about 482 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
Debris and open burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
14 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 308
13 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service362 CR 323
9 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2044 @ US 281
7 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2044 @ US 281
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 311
4 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2163 CR 308
3 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 359 SOUTH OF CR 308

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jim Wells 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 Alfred: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mosser QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jim Wells County

Storms near this place

12 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alfred in 12 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 5 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
June 2015Flash FloodAlfred$1,500,000Street flooding occurred in Orange Grove. A high water rescue was performed for a woman in a trailer near a rapidly rising creek along Farm to Market Road 534 west of Sandia. Water was over the roadway in two places on Farm to Market Road 624 northwest of Westdale.
September 2011Tornado (EF1)Alfred$20,000A NWS survey concluded an EF-1 tornado touched down 3 miles southeast of Alfred along County Road 44 near the Jim Wells and Nueces County line. The tornado was approximately 100 yards wide and on the ground for nearly 2 miles. The maximum winds were estimated to be at 90 MPH. A house was damaged and lost part of its roof. An outdoor storage shed was destroyed and many mesquite trees lost large limbs or were snapped at their base.
August 2023FloodAlfred$10,000A vehicle drove into a flooded low water crossing 5 miles north northeast of Lake Alice. The local fire department had to perform a high water rescue.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindAlfred$10,000Large trees were blown down by estimated 65 mph winds southwest of Orange Grove.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindAlfred$2,000Observer reported numerous tree limbs down on his ranch west of Orange Grove. Winds caused power outages also.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAlfred-Observer reported 4 inch diameter tree limbs were broken southwest of Orange Grove.
June 2018Flash FloodAlfred-Many roads from around Alfred to near Orange Grove were closed due to flooding.
June 2018Flash FloodAlfred-Significant street and road flooding occurred around Orange Grove.
August 2016Flash FloodAlfred-County Roads 220 and 221 were closed due to high water.
March 2015Flash FloodAlfred-Farm roads became impassable as creek overflowed.
May 2014HailAlfred-Quarter sized hail occurred in Alfred.
September 2009HailAlfred-Reported southwest of Westdale.

Every storm recorded in Jim Wells 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.

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 AlfredAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978290The 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 1329355. 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.