Bedias, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Anderson-Bedias census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77831. The Survey maps it on the Bedias quadrangle. 361 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 318 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBedias fell from 443 to 361 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 | 443 | |
| 2020 | 361 | -82 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Bedias quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
279 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 279 fires within 5 miles of Bedias between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,377 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 201 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4533 CR 123 |
| 9 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 110 AND CR 165 |
| 9 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1977 CR 116 |
| 8 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 21485 HWY 90 N |
| 8 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 23796 CR 119 |
| 7 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bedias in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 flash flood, 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Bedias | $50,000 | NWS Storm survey found EF1 tornado damage along a path across portions of northern Grimes and southern Madison counties, generally parallel and to the west of SH 90 between Bedias and Madisonville. Damage included trees downed and uprooted, and there was also some roof damage to a few homes. |
| January 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bedias | $40,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a hay barn, knocked over a silo, and downed some trees on FM 1696. |
| March 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Bedias | $15,000 | Trees downed from brief tornado touchdown. |
| January 1999 | Hail | Bedias | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Bedias | $10,000 | no account filed |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bedias | $8,000 | Wind damage in Bedias. |
| December 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Bedias | $7,000 | Tornado 2 miles east of Bedias. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bedias | $5,000 | Trees were downed by strong thunderstorm wind gusts near SH-90 and FM 141 near Bedias. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Bedias | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bedias | $3,000 | Trees down. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Bedias | $3,000 | Nickel size hail. |
| January 2024 | Flash Flood | Bedias | - | FM 1486 was closed near Garretts Creek. |
| January 2024 | Flash Flood | Bedias | - | FM 3090 was closed near Rocky Creek. |
| January 2024 | Flash Flood | Bedias | - | FM 1774 was closed near Caney Creek. |
| January 2024 | Flash Flood | Bedias | - | FM 362 was closed near Beason Creek. |
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Bedias | - | FM 2620 southeast of Bedias was impassable due to flash flooding. |
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Bedias | - | FM 1696 to the west of Bedias was made impassable due to flash flooding. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bedias | - | A large tree was downed across Highway 90 north of Bedias. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Bedias | - | There were numerous roads closed and impassable across the eastern part of the county. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Bedias | - | A severe thunderstorm produced nickel sized hail. |
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.
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 Bedias | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q931829 | 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 1372465. 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.




