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.
Population over time
2 figuresBuckholts 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 515 | |
| 2020 | 365 | -150 (-29%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1885 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
- 1887 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Pettibone quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
77 since 2009Regional 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 use | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAY CUTTING |
| 22 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAY CUTTING |
| 18 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAY FIRE |
| 1 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 7 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAY FIRE |
| 31 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 3 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 18 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PITTMAN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2007 | Flash Flood | Buckholts | 1 killed, $10,000 | A 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Buckholts | $800,000 | Highway 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Buckholts | $100,000 | FM 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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckholts | $12,000 | Occurred in the community of Davilla. Several mobile homes were unroofed and trees were uprooted. |
| March 2007 | Flash Flood | Buckholts | $10,000 | Several 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckholts | $6,000 | A Facebook report showed several broken power poles and downed power lines just east of Buckholts. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Buckholts | - | Occurred in the community of Davilla. |
| January 1998 | Hail | Buckholts | - | Quarter size hail covered the ground. |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckholts | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckholts | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Flash Flood | Buckholts | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Buckholts | - | 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.
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 Buckholts | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q978379 | 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 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.





