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Buckholts, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Buckholts census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76518. The Survey maps it on the Pettibone quadrangle. 365 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 522 feet above sea level.

Buckholts within Milam County

Population over time

2 figures

Buckholts fell from 515 to 365 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
2010515
2020365-150 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

77 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Buckholts between 2009 and 2020, burning about 802 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 use25
Debris and open burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
23 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY CUTTING
22 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY CUTTING
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY FIRE
1 September 2013Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY FIRE
31 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
18 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePITTMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckholts in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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
January 2007Flash FloodBuckholts1 killed, $10,000A woman drowned after attempting to cross a flooded low-water crossing in her truck. The truck was found on January 15, but the woman's body was not located until the 18th. She was found off CR 147 near the Marak community. Water was also reported over roads near Davilla.
July 2007Flash FloodBuckholts$800,000Highway 77 between Burlington and Cameron, FM 485 at CR 255 near Maysfield, and Highway 190 in Cameron were all flooded by about eight inches of water. FM 485 was partially washed out. Numerous roads were closed in the Buckholtz/Cameron area including FM 1915 at Big Elm Creek, South Elm Creek, and Little River, FM 486 at Little River, and FM 1600 at Bear Creek. A dozen homes sustained water damge in Cameron, and four homes were flooded in the Thorndale-Thrall area. Four people were rescued from high water on the FM 2095 Snapdragon Bridge west of Hanover. One man refused help and elected to stay with the flooded vehicle.
May 2007Flash FloodBuckholts$100,000FM 437 at Cypress Creek was closed due to flooding in Buckholts, and a flooded house was evacuated in Cameron. The house and some of its contents were considered a total loss.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindBuckholts$12,000Occurred in the community of Davilla. Several mobile homes were unroofed and trees were uprooted.
March 2007Flash FloodBuckholts$10,000Several high water rescues were required. A truck was washed off a bridge near Marak; the occupants were able to escape through the windows of the truck. One of the men got to safety immediately, and another was carried downstream and was later found safe clinging to a tree. Two hog hunters had to be rescued when they were stranded by rising water near Pond Creek. No injuries were reported.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBuckholts$6,000A Facebook report showed several broken power poles and downed power lines just east of Buckholts.
April 2004HailBuckholts-Occurred in the community of Davilla.
January 1998HailBuckholts-Quarter size hail covered the ground.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindBuckholts-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindBuckholts-no account filed
September 1996Flash FloodBuckholts-no account filed
June 1995HailBuckholts-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Milam 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
Corinth2.1 miles17
Pettibone2.8 miles14
Marak3.6 miles14
Bowers4.2 miles14
Elm Ridge4.8 miles14
South Elm5.1 miles14
Cummins Crossing5.3 miles17
North Elm5.8 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 BuckholtsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978379The 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 1353150. 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.