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Beasley, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rosenberg-Richmond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77417. The Survey maps it on the Kendleton quadrangle. 608 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 108 feet above sea level.

Beasley within Fort Bend County

Population over time

2 figures

Beasley fell from 641 to 608 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
2010641
2020608-33 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Beasley between 2011 and 2020, burning about 6,888 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism400 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNEEDVILLE
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARTLEDGE ROAD
14 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOTTONWOOD CHURCH ROAD
13 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6,426 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 December 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLEON STREET
3 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKLOSTERHOFF ROAD
18 October 2015Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRINKMEYER ROAD
19 January 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVINCIK EHLERT ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beasley in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 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
March 2002Tornado (F0)Beasley$150,000A Tornado touchdown had severely damaged a home in Beasley, reported by Sheriff.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindBeasley$15,000Wind damage to home just south of Beasley on FM 316.
August 1999HailBeasley$15,000no account filed
April 2004HailBeasley$5,000Penny-size hail in Beasley.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindBeasley$4,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed a power pole and left low hanging power lines along FM 360.
April 2003HailBeasley$2,000no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBeasley-Trees were downed along FM 360.
June 2018Flash FloodBeasley-There was a road closure near the intersection of Highway 59 and the 540 Loop in Beasley.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBeasley-A trampoline was wrapped around a light pole and fences were downed.

Every storm recorded in Fort Bend 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
Tavener4.8 miles10
McHattie4.9 miles9
Kendleton5.2 miles9
Powell Point5.7 miles8
Pleak5.9 miles10
Rosenberg7.1 miles9
Orchard7.9 miles10
Needville8.0 miles10

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 BeasleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980852The 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 1330260. 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.