Bevil Oaks, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Nome-China census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77713. It lies near Hughes Gully. The Survey maps it on the Bevil Oaks quadrangle. 1,089 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 26 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresBevil Oaks fell from 1,346 to 1,089 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,346 | |
| 2010 | 1,274 | -72 (-5%) |
| 2020 | 1,089 | -185 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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
- 1955 USGS Sour Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Bevil Oaks quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
137 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Bevil Oaks between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,757 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 10 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 | 68 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | KIETH RD |
| 6 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH/TRAM |
| 5 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | REKINLDE/RIVERBEND |
| 3 September 2009 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 220 |
| 25 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH/EQUIPMENT/TRAILER |
| 2 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 136 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9166 |
| 2 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 105/DEBRIS |
| 16 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH/DEBRIS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bevil Oaks in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 7 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bevil Oaks | $10,000 | Several trees were blown down in the Bevil Oaks community some of which damaged homes. |
| March 2012 | Flash Flood | Bevil Oaks | $10,000 | A line of storms producing heavy rain slowly moved across Jefferson County producing 4 to 5 inches of rain. Some roadways were noted to have suffered from minor flooding in Beaumont although Park Street near College Street was closed. |
| February 2007 | Flash Flood | Bevil Oaks | $10,000 | Highway 105 between Bevil Oaks and Sour Lake was under water after three to five inches of rain. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bevil Oaks | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Bevil Oaks | - | The river gage in Bevil Oaks indicated minor flooding from a thunderstorm. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Bevil Oaks | - | A picture of hail ranging from quarters to golf ball size was received through social media. |
| November 2018 | Hail | Bevil Oaks | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Bevil Oaks. |
| September 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Bevil Oaks | - | A funnel cloud was reported along Highway 105 between Beaumont and Sour Lake by Beaumont media. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Bevil Oaks | - | Nickel sized hail was reported in Bevel Oaks. The small hail lasted for about 8 minutes. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Bevil Oaks | - | A Beaumont TV station reported nickel size hail in Bevil Oaks. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Bevil Oaks | - | A Beaumont TV station reported ping pong ball size hail in Bevil Oaks. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Bevil Oaks | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Bevil Oaks | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Bevil Oaks | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westbury | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Voth | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Rosedale Acres | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Bor-ley Heights | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Meeker | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Evergreen | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Gilburg | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| Rosedale | 5.7 miles | 14 |
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 Bevil Oaks | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q969141 | 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 1377266. 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.





