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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.

Bacliff within Galveston County

Population over time

2 figures

Bacliff 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.

YearPeople Change
20108,619
20209,677+1,058 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

5 since 2008

Regional 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/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
12 December 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest Service146
9 November 2008Arson/incendiarism50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 January 2009Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAYRIDGE
13 January 2009Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSUNSET RIDGE
12 January 2008Debris and open burning200 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Galveston County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2021Flash FloodBacliff$500,000Heavy 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 1998Thunderstorm WindBacliff$5,00070 mph wind gusts.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBacliff$3,000Numerous trees were downed off of Gordy Road.
February 1998HailBacliff$3,000no account filed
February 1998HailBacliff$3,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBacliff$1,000Damage in Bacliff.
June 2008HailBacliff-Penny size hail was observed at the intersection of FM 517 and SH 146.
July 2003Funnel CloudBacliff-no account filed
September 2000Funnel CloudBacliff-no account filed
September 1999Funnel CloudBacliff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Galveston 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
Chase Park0.3 miles15
Bayview0.8 miles19
Bay Ridge2.1 miles19
Seagate2.1 miles19
Kemah Park2.3 miles19
Foster Place2.6 miles19
Bay Breeze2.7 miles19
Kemah2.9 miles19

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 BacliffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980386The 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.