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Angleton, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Angleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77515. The Survey maps it on the Angleton quadrangle. 19,429 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Angleton within Brazoria County

On record in Angleton

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Angleton grew from 18,862 to 19,429 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
201018,862
202019,429+567 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

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.

Chenango Sugar Mill, Chenango Vicinity, Angleton, Brazoria County, TX
Chenango Sugar Mill, Chenango Vicinity, Angleton, Brazoria County, TX
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

30 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Angleton between 2002 and 2013, burning about 538 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Smoking1
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
26 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2012-000334
23 September 2012Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2012-000330
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 35 S @ CR 881
29 August 2012Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2012-000293
22 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2012-000286
12 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2012-000259
11 June 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 288 & CR 523
8 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria 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 Angleton: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur. 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
Hoskins MoundSulfurUnknown

Every working recorded in Brazoria County

Storms near this place

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Angleton in 37 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 5 flash flood, 5 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
August 2000LightningAngleton1 killedLightning struck and killed 31 year old man on motorcycle.
May 2007Flash FloodAngleton$110,000Three flooded homes with over a foot of water in them off of Henderson Road. Reports of 50 more flooded homes, or homes with water damage, in Angleton.
May 2015Flash FloodAngleton$75,000Widespread flooding was reported with water in homes in Angleton.
August 2002Flash FloodAngleton$50,000Street flooding in Angleton and Lake Jackson.
March 1999Tornado (F0)Angleton$50,000Tornado between Angleton and Oyster Creek. Barn destroyed in storm.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindAngleton$50,000no account filed
October 2018Tornado (EF0)Angleton$30,000The EF-0 tornado tracked through Angleton and damaged firehouse bay doors while producing significant tree damage to the southeast of the firehouse. There was also minor roof damage to some surrounding structures.
February 2000Thunderstorm WindAngleton$30,000Downburst wind caused damage to roofs, automobiles, and windows at the county courthouse.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindAngleton$25,000Trees and power lines down.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindAngleton$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and numerous tree limbs throughout the city.
April 2015HailAngleton$15,000Egg to tennis ball sized hail was reported in Angleton.
October 1998Tornado (F0)Angleton$15,000Brief tornado touchdown just east of Angleton. Cattle ranch sustained structural damage and loss of livestock.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindAngleton$11,000Trees down.
March 2007HailAngleton$5,000Penny size hail.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindAngleton$5,000Wind damage to a home at FM 523 and CR 804.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindAngleton$5,000Wind from outflow boundary snapped a tree tat crushed patio roof.
April 1993HailAngleton$5,000The Brazoria County Sheriff's Office reported golf ball-size hail near Angleton.
April 1997HailAngleton$5,000no account filed
April 1997HailAngleton$5,000no account filed
November 1997HailAngleton$5,000no account filed
October 2006Thunderstorm WindAngleton$3,000Winds knocked downed trees.
March 1998Flash FloodAngleton$3,000Street flooding.
February 1998HailAngleton$3,000no account filed
March 2024Thunderstorm WindAngleton-The weather station at the Angleton Police Department had sustained winds of 53 mph with gusts to 75 mph.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindAngleton-Multiple trees were downed across Angleton.
May 2018HailAngleton-Penny sized hail was observed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindAngleton-Wind gust was in the Angleton area.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindAngleton-Severe thunderstorm winds downed a tree near Northside Elementary School.
April 2015HailAngleton-Quarter sized hail was observed in the Angleton area.
April 2015HailAngleton-There were multiple reports of quarter sized hail in and around the Angleton area.
July 2014Funnel CloudAngleton-A funnel cloud was sighted just to the north of Angleton.
May 2007Flash FloodAngleton-Flooding across Highway 288 near the intersections of FM 523 and County Roads 340 and 341. Flooding also reported on Highway 35 between Angleton and West Columbia.
September 2000Funnel CloudAngleton-Numerous funnel clouds sighted.
September 2000Funnel CloudAngleton-Numerous funnel clouds sighted.
July 2007Funnel CloudAngleton-no account filed
May 2001Funnel CloudAngleton-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindAngleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brazoria 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
Van Pelt2.5 miles11
Anchor3.5 miles11
Snipe4.1 miles13
Bailey Prairie4.3 miles10
Bastrop Beach5.1 miles12
Holiday Lakes5.3 miles10
Chenango6.0 miles11
Danbury6.1 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 AngletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q162489The 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 1351127. 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.