Anahuac, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Anahuac census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77514. The Survey maps it on the Anahuac quadrangle. 1,980 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.
On record in Anahuac
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Chambers County Courthouselisted 2008
Chambersealisted 1979- Fort Anahuaclisted 1981
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- General Thomas Jefferson Chambers House, Cummings Street, Anahuacfederal building survey, 5 photographs
Population over time
3 figuresAnahuac fell from 2,210 to 1,980 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2,210 | |
| 2010 | 2,243 | +33 (+1%) |
| 2020 | 1,980 | -263 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1942 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Anahuac between 1996 and 2012, burning about 227 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge | WF OFFICE CHIP PILE |
| 5 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.3 acres | Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge | WF TCP OFFICE |
| 3 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 67 |
| 18 March 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 March 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 October 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 245 |
| 20 January 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 95 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 97 |
| 14 January 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 86 acres | Livingston Area | WOODVILLE - 9015 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anahuac in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anahuac | $150,000 | Windows blown out of house with large tree down on Bayshore Road. Most of a two story home under construction destroyed. Trailer destroyed just north of Oak Island. |
| April 2000 | Tornado (F1) | Anahuac | $100,000 | Tornado near FM 1985 with rice dryers demolished and major tree damage at several homes. |
| December 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anahuac | $75,000 | 90 mph wind recorded at Chambers Co Airport. One aircraft destroyed. Damage to a high school roof, mobile home roof lifted, garage destroyed, powerlines down, and damage to a Putt-Putt golf course. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anahuac | $50,000 | 90 mph wind recorded at Chambers County Airport. One aircraft destroyed. Damage to high school roof, mobile home roof lifted, garage destroyed, powerlines down, and minor damage to a miniature golf course. |
| November 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anahuac | $35,000 | Tree on carport with damage to two vehicles. Storage building had roof damage. Four power poles on Poskey Road were snapped. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anahuac | $25,000 | Trees and power lines down on FM 563. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anahuac | $15,000 | Power poles down on FM 563. |
| September 1997 | Hail | Anahuac | $15,000 | Hail from Anahuac to I-10. |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anahuac | $15,000 | Numerous trees blown down from Anahuac to I-10. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Anahuac | $10,000 | Penny-size hail reported in Anahauc. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anahuac | $5,000 | Mobile home sustained wind damage. |
| January 1998 | Hail | Anahuac | $5,000 | no account filed |
| January 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anahuac | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Anahuac | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anahuac | $4,000 | There were trees and power lines downed in Anahuac. |
| December 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anahuac | $3,000 | Powerlines blown down. |
| August 1998 | Hail | Anahuac | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anahuac | $1,000 | Emergency management officials reported trees downed near Anahuac. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anahuac | $1,000 | Emergency management officials reported trees downed near Anahuac. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Anahuac | - | Parts of FM 562 south of Anahuac were closed due to flooding. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anahuac | - | Estimated 60 mph wind gust. |
| June 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Anahuac | - | Three funnel clouds reported. |
| February 2008 | Hail | Anahuac | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Anahuac | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turtle Bayou | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Eminence | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Monroe City | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Wallisville | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Double Bayou | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Hankamer | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Cove | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Oak Island | 7.7 miles | 10 |
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 Anahuac | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q204982 | 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 1329510. 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.






