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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.

Anahuac within Chambers County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Anahuac 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.

YearPeople Change
20002,210
20102,243+33 (+1%)
20201,980-263 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

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.

General Thomas Jefferson Chambers House, Cummings Street, Anahuac, Chambers County, TX
General Thomas Jefferson Chambers House, Cummings Street, Anahuac, Chambers County, TX
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

8 since 1996

Regional 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/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
30 August 2010Naturalunder an acreAnahuac National Wildlife RefugeWF OFFICE CHIP PILE
5 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.3 acresAnahuac National Wildlife RefugeWF TCP OFFICE
3 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 67
18 March 1996Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 March 1996Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 October 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 245
20 January 2000Arson/incendiarism95 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 97
14 January 2012Recreation and ceremony86 acresLivingston AreaWOODVILLE - 9015

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2000Thunderstorm WindAnahuac$150,000Windows 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 2000Tornado (F1)Anahuac$100,000Tornado near FM 1985 with rice dryers demolished and major tree damage at several homes.
December 1997Thunderstorm WindAnahuac$75,00090 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 1997Thunderstorm WindAnahuac$50,00090 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 2004Thunderstorm WindAnahuac$35,000Tree on carport with damage to two vehicles. Storage building had roof damage. Four power poles on Poskey Road were snapped.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindAnahuac$25,000Trees and power lines down on FM 563.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindAnahuac$15,000Power poles down on FM 563.
September 1997HailAnahuac$15,000Hail from Anahuac to I-10.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindAnahuac$15,000Numerous trees blown down from Anahuac to I-10.
April 2004HailAnahuac$10,000Penny-size hail reported in Anahauc.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindAnahuac$5,000Mobile home sustained wind damage.
January 1998HailAnahuac$5,000no account filed
January 1997Thunderstorm WindAnahuac$5,000no account filed
May 1996HailAnahuac$5,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindAnahuac$4,000There were trees and power lines downed in Anahuac.
December 1997Thunderstorm WindAnahuac$3,000Powerlines blown down.
August 1998HailAnahuac$3,000no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindAnahuac$1,000Emergency management officials reported trees downed near Anahuac.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindAnahuac$1,000Emergency management officials reported trees downed near Anahuac.
August 2017Flash FloodAnahuac-Parts of FM 562 south of Anahuac were closed due to flooding.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindAnahuac-Estimated 60 mph wind gust.
June 2000Funnel CloudAnahuac-Three funnel clouds reported.
February 2008HailAnahuac-no account filed
July 1999Funnel CloudAnahuac-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Turtle Bayou3.8 miles12
Eminence4.2 miles12
Monroe City5.2 miles10
Wallisville5.3 miles12
Double Bayou6.2 miles10
Hankamer6.6 miles12
Cove7.4 miles12
Oak Island7.7 miles10

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 AnahuacAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q204982The 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.