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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.

Bevil Oaks within Jefferson County

Population over time

3 figures

Bevil 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,346
20101,274-72 (-5%)
20201,089-185 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

137 since 1992

Regional 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 burning68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Natural10
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKIETH RD
6 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH/TRAM
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREKINLDE/RIVERBEND
3 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 220
25 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH/EQUIPMENT/TRAILER
2 September 2013Debris and open burning136 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9166
2 September 2009Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service105/DEBRIS
16 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH/DEBRIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

14 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2019Thunderstorm WindBevil Oaks$10,000Several trees were blown down in the Bevil Oaks community some of which damaged homes.
March 2012Flash FloodBevil Oaks$10,000A 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 2007Flash FloodBevil Oaks$10,000Highway 105 between Bevil Oaks and Sour Lake was under water after three to five inches of rain.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindBevil Oaks$2,000no account filed
May 2024Flash FloodBevil Oaks-The river gage in Bevil Oaks indicated minor flooding from a thunderstorm.
April 2023HailBevil Oaks-A picture of hail ranging from quarters to golf ball size was received through social media.
November 2018HailBevil Oaks-Quarter sized hail was reported in Bevil Oaks.
September 2014Funnel CloudBevil Oaks-A funnel cloud was reported along Highway 105 between Beaumont and Sour Lake by Beaumont media.
July 2013HailBevil Oaks-Nickel sized hail was reported in Bevel Oaks. The small hail lasted for about 8 minutes.
March 2009HailBevil Oaks-A Beaumont TV station reported nickel size hail in Bevil Oaks.
March 2009HailBevil Oaks-A Beaumont TV station reported ping pong ball size hail in Bevil Oaks.
July 2005HailBevil Oaks-no account filed
October 2001Tornado (F0)Bevil Oaks-no account filed
September 2000HailBevil Oaks-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Westbury3.9 miles11
Voth4.0 miles14
Rosedale Acres4.4 miles14
Bor-ley Heights4.4 miles14
Meeker4.7 miles11
Mount Evergreen5.0 miles14
Gilburg5.3 miles14
Rosedale5.7 miles14

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 OaksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969141The 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.