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Beach City, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It lies in ZIP code area 77523. The Survey maps it on the Morgans Point quadrangle. 3,221 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Beach City within Chambers County

Population over time

2 figures

Beach City grew from 2,198 to 3,221 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
20102,198
20203,221+1,023 (+47%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Beach City between 1992 and 2007, burning about 1,520 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural5
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 1997Natural2.0 acresTexas Point National Wildlife RefugeTXPTBEACH
24 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas Point National Wildlife RefugeTPHATFIELD
27 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMcFaddin National Wildlife RefugeTPELDRIDGE
31 July 1992Natural1.0 acresMcFaddin National Wildlife RefugeTP CATTLE
21 July 1992Natural6.5 acresMcFaddin National Wildlife RefugeTPPOLE
18 July 1992Natural1,089 acresMcFaddin National Wildlife RefugeTXPT BEACH

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Beach City: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Halite, Iron, Clay. 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
Cedar Point Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1938
Gulf Coast Portland Cement CoClayPast Producer
U S Steel Texas WorksIronProducer

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beach City in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 2 tornado, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2017LightningBeach City$20,000Lightning struck some crude oil tankers and set them on fire. Residents within a half mile radius were evacuated until the fire was contained.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBeach City-Wind gust occurred at mesonet station CBHT2 1710 Cedar Bayou at SH 99.
May 2020Funnel CloudBeach City-A funnel cloud was sighted to the north of Beach City.
August 2017Flash FloodBeach City-Sections of I-10, FM 565 at I-10 and SH 146 at Cherry Point Drive were all flooded and therefore closed across the county.||Major lowland flooding occurred along the Trinity River. Extensive flooding was observed in the Milam Bend subdivision (Baytown) along Cedar Bayou.
August 2012Tornado (EF0)Beach City-A waterspout moved inland near Beach City and produced no damage before dissipation.
November 2003Tornado (F0)Beach City-Tornado touch down near Beach City.

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
Oak Island10.6 miles10
Smith Point11.0 miles15
Clifton Beach11.4 miles15
Cove12.3 miles12
Mont Belvieu12.8 miles15
Anahuac13.4 miles12
Double Bayou14.0 miles10
Wallisville14.3 miles12

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 Beach CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q812835The 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 1381006. 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.