Boling, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Boling-Newgulf census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77420. The Survey maps it on the Boling quadrangle. 930 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresBoling fell from 1,122 to 930 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 | 1,122 | |
| 2020 | 930 | -192 (-17%) |
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.
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Boling quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Boling in 2008, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 Boling: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Barium-Barite, Iron, Zinc, Lead, Manganese, Sulfur. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Prairie Aggregates | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Boling Dome | Sulfur | Past Producer | 1922, 1929 | |
| Boling Dome Mine | Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Barium-Barite, Iron, Zinc, Lead, Manganese | Producer | 1923, 1928 |
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boling in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boling | $75,000 | Wind damage destroyed a mobile home with some carport damage, tree limbs down. |
| September 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Boling | $75,000 | Tornado destroyed one mobile home, damaged three others and tore apart a barn in Boling. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Boling | $20,000 | Golf ball size hail nearly covered the ground. |
| November 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Boling | $20,000 | Tornado damaged three barns and broke several tree limbs. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boling | $20,000 | Large trees down along FM 422 & CR 124. Large tree fell on Brooks Nursery causing $15,000 in damage. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boling | $18,000 | Damage to several smaller shed structures with significant damage to one large shed-barn structure. Minor damage to a local ball park's grandstand metal roofing. |
| March 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boling | $10,000 | Large oak tree blown down in Pyssen Oaks Subdivision off FM 442. |
| March 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boling | $5,000 | 12 inch diameter tree limb blown down blocking Texas Street. |
| July 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Boling | - | A funnel cloud was sighted near Boling-Iago. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Boling | - | Golf ball size hail was observed on FM 1096 one mile from FM 1301. |
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 Boling | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q12628102 | 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 1352623. 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.




