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.
Population over time
2 figuresBeach 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,198 | |
| 2020 | 3,221 | +1,023 (+47%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 17 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.
- 1916 USGS Morgan Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1919 USGS Morgan Point quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Morgan Point quadrangle1:31680
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Morgan Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Morgans Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Morgans Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Morgans Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Morgans Point quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
15 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1997 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas Point National Wildlife Refuge | TXPTBEACH |
| 24 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas Point National Wildlife Refuge | TPHATFIELD |
| 27 August 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge | TPELDRIDGE |
| 31 July 1992 | Natural | 1.0 acres | McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge | TP CATTLE |
| 21 July 1992 | Natural | 6.5 acres | McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge | TPPOLE |
| 18 July 1992 | Natural | 1,089 acres | McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge | TXPT BEACH |
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Point Salt Dome | Halite | Occurrence | 1938 | |
| Gulf Coast Portland Cement Co | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| U S Steel Texas Works | Iron | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Lightning | Beach City | $20,000 | Lightning struck some crude oil tankers and set them on fire. Residents within a half mile radius were evacuated until the fire was contained. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beach City | - | Wind gust occurred at mesonet station CBHT2 1710 Cedar Bayou at SH 99. |
| May 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Beach City | - | A funnel cloud was sighted to the north of Beach City. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Beach 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 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Beach City | - | A waterspout moved inland near Beach City and produced no damage before dissipation. |
| November 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Beach City | - | Tornado touch down near Beach City. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Island | 10.6 miles | 10 | |
| Smith Point | 11.0 miles | 15 | |
| Clifton Beach | 11.4 miles | 15 | |
| Cove | 12.3 miles | 12 | |
| Mont Belvieu | 12.8 miles | 15 | |
| Anahuac | 13.4 miles | 12 | |
| Double Bayou | 14.0 miles | 10 | |
| Wallisville | 14.3 miles | 12 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q812835 | 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 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.











