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Brookshire, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Brookshire census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77423. It stands on Kellner Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brookshire quadrangle. 5,066 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 161 feet above sea level.

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Brookshire within Waller County

Population over time

2 figures

Brookshire grew from 4,702 to 5,066 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
20104,702
20205,066+364 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Brookshire between 2009 and 2013, burning about 166 acres 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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
8 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
8 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use12 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 216
7 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUNT ROAD
16 July 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURN BAN VIOLATION
6 May 2012Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE-GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waller County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brookshire: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jones G Finke Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Storms near this place

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brookshire in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
October 1998Tornado (F2)Brookshire1 killed, 1 hurt, $75,000Tornado destroyed mobile home. One person killed and another injured in the home. Nine other homes damaged and 2 barns destroyed.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindBrookshire$50,000Widespread trees and powerlines down across southern parts of the county, especially near Brookshire. Trailer home destroyed, widespread structural damage, and a car blown off the road.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindBrookshire$30,000Trees and 35 powerlines blown down.
April 2001HailBrookshire$20,000no account filed
June 2004HailBrookshire$15,000Hail on FM 359 near the Waller-Fort Bend County border.
February 1998HailBrookshire$15,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBrookshire$10,000Utility poles along Highway 90 were snapped off due to high thunderstorm winds.
March 2013HailBrookshire$8,000Golf ball size hail blew out the windows of an apartment complex. Different size hail completely covered the ground and measured six inches deep.
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Brookshire$5,000Tornado estimated by multiple social media posts to be on the ground between the Fulshear area and the Brookshire area. Briefly touched down in a field. No significant damage.
February 1993HailBrookshire$5,000Houston Emergency Management reported 1.00-inch hail in Brookshire.
March 2003HailBrookshire$5,000no account filed
March 2002HailBrookshire$5,000no account filed
May 1997HailBrookshire$5,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindBrookshire$5,000no account filed
December 1997Thunderstorm WindBrookshire$3,000Trees blown down.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBrookshire$2,000no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindBrookshire$500The HAMS spotter network reported 60 mph winds in Brookshire.
December 2024Tornado (EF1)Brookshire-An emergency manager reported tornado damage in a mobile home park near Noel Lane, with cars flipped over. Survey teams confirmed damage in this area, finding trees snapped, powerlines down, roofs ripped off or partially ripped off of mobile homes. Additional damage was surveyed further southwest near Grassner Road, where a home was tied down with a hurricane anchored installation and it slid off. In the same area, a barn was overturned, lifted and blew away around 20 yards. Further northeast in Harris county, several pieces of sheet metal were bent on power lines and scattered along Freeman St, with damage to wooden fences. Partial loss of roofs and side walls was found in a few homes nearby by the survey team. Broken windows, garage doors, tree limbs and several large tree branches were also found in the area. The survey team rated this tornado as an EF1 with estimated winds up to 100 mph.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBrookshire-An AWOS site measured a strong wind gust at Houston Executive Airport.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBrookshire-The wind gust was measured at the Houston Executive Airport.
October 2018Funnel CloudBrookshire-The funnel cloud was reported just west of the intersection of Simonton and House Roads.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBrookshire-This wind gust was measured in a severe thunderstorm at the Houston Executive Airport.
November 2004Funnel CloudBrookshire-Funnel sighted at Interstate 10 and FM 1489.

Every storm recorded in Waller 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
Cardiff2.4 miles9
Pattison3.6 miles9
Johnsue3.9 miles9
Clemons6.2 miles13
Sunny Side9.4 miles11
Monaville12.3 miles11
Waller18.7 miles15
Pine Island19.3 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 BrookshireAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q929839The 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 1331324. 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.