Bacliff, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Texas City-League City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77518. It lies near Pine Gully. The Survey maps it on the Bacliff quadrangle. 9,677 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBacliff grew from 8,619 to 9,677 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8,619 | |
| 2020 | 9,677 | +1,058 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1932 USGS Clifton By The Sea quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Clifton By The Sea quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Bacliff quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Bacliff quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Bacliff quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bacliff between 2008 and 2010, burning about 476 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 December 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 146 |
| 9 November 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 January 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BAYRIDGE |
| 13 January 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SUNSET RIDGE |
| 12 January 2008 | Debris and open burning | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bacliff in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Bacliff | $500,000 | Heavy rain resulted in high water over roadways, making streets impassable. At least 25 structures including many within the Bacliff Villas subdivision were inundated with floodwaters, resulting in water damage. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bacliff | $5,000 | 70 mph wind gusts. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bacliff | $3,000 | Numerous trees were downed off of Gordy Road. |
| February 1998 | Hail | Bacliff | $3,000 | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | Bacliff | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bacliff | $1,000 | Damage in Bacliff. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Bacliff | - | Penny size hail was observed at the intersection of FM 517 and SH 146. |
| July 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Bacliff | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Bacliff | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Bacliff | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chase Park | 0.3 miles | 15 | |
| Bayview | 0.8 miles | 19 | |
| Bay Ridge | 2.1 miles | 19 | |
| Seagate | 2.1 miles | 19 | |
| Kemah Park | 2.3 miles | 19 | |
| Foster Place | 2.6 miles | 19 | |
| Bay Breeze | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Kemah | 2.9 miles | 19 |
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 Bacliff | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q980386 | 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 1329909. 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.








