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Anderson, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Anderson-Bedias census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77830. It stands on Nebletts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Anderson quadrangle. 193 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 344 feet above sea level.

Anderson within Grimes County

On record in Anderson

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Anderson fell from 222 to 193 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
2010222
2020193-29 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

88 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Anderson between 1999 and 2020, burning about 533 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 215
21 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 405
20 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHNSON
19 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH 90
6 August 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2003Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 65
31 August 2018Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2562

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grimes 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 Anderson: 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
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grimes County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anderson in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death. 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
October 2006LightningAnderson1 killed, $8,000A 21 year old male was struck by lightning while riding a horse. He was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. Two horses in a nearby pasture were also killed by a lightning strike.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindAnderson$50,000no account filed
April 2007Thunderstorm WindAnderson$40,000Tree blown down onto residential home.
March 2002HailAnderson$30,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindAnderson$15,000Trees down.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindAnderson$10,000Numerous trees down in rural areas south of the town of Anderson.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindAnderson$10,000Trees down along County Road 405.
December 1995HailAnderson$10,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindAnderson$1,000Large tree down on FM 1774.
October 2025Tornado (EF0)Anderson-EF-0 tornado touched down south of Anderson producing tree and structural damage starting from CR406 traveling along Holland Creek toward FM 2819, CR 222, FM 2562, FM 1486, and CR232B. One home had all windows broken and a French door sucked out of the back of the home. Another home suffered extensive roof damage. Metal roofing was found twisted around a tree nearby. It was here at the beginning of the storm path where peak winds were estimated at 79 mph.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindAnderson-Many instances of trees downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts were reported to Grimes County law enforcement.
May 2015Flash FloodAnderson-Numerous roads were closed in Anderson. Numerous roads were closed in Plantersville.
November 2004Flash FloodAnderson-FM 244 south of Highway 30 closed due to flooding.
June 2000Funnel CloudAnderson-Funnel cloud over CR 186.

Every storm recorded in Grimes 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
Erwin3.9 miles10
Apolonia4.1 miles11
Piedmont6.2 miles10
Roans Prairie7.1 miles10
Richards8.6 miles11
Navasota8.7 miles10
Carlos8.9 miles10
Blackberry9.2 miles11

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 AndersonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q491462The 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 1351091. 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.