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Central Gardens, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Port Arthur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77627. It sits by Smith Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Port Acres quadrangle. 4,373 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Central Gardens within Jefferson County

Population over time

3 figures

Central Gardens grew from 4,106 to 4,373 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
20004,106
20104,347+241 (+6%)
20204,373+26 (+1%)

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

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Central Gardens between 1996 and 2013, burning about 556 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
31 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREENHILL
14 June 2011Natural300 acresLivingston AreaLAMAR FIRE
31 May 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 77
18 April 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5100 N HWY 347
24 March 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 92
23 March 2002Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 89
19 March 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHILLEBRANDT RD
19 March 1996Debris and open burning85 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Central Gardens: 5 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine, Sulfur, Halite. 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
Port Neches Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1928
Spindletop Dome MineSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra PurePast Producer1950, 1952, 1976
Spindletop WellsBromineProducerBrine
Maco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Beaumont Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Port Arthur Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Spindletop Dome Sulfur MineSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Central Gardens in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
December 2014LightningCentral Gardens$50,000Lightning struck a home of a Southeast Texas doctor setting the roof on fire. Firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze after a neighbor reported it. No one was injured in the fire.
April 2024Flash FloodCentral Gardens$10,000Several streets flooded around Nederland with a few cars flooded on South 8th Street.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindCentral Gardens$1,000Power poles were snapped in Beauxart Gardens. Southeast Texas Regional Airport also recorded a wind gust of 55 mph.
July 2012Funnel CloudCentral Gardens-Beaumont Media relayed reports of a funnel cloud near the Southeast Texas Regional Airport. The funnel extended around of the way to the ground.
February 2008HailCentral Gardens-no account filed
December 2007HailCentral Gardens-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
McFadden1.6 miles19
Nederland1.9 miles16
Dowling1.9 miles19
Hebert2.6 miles12
Beauxart Gardens2.6 miles12
Lucas2.9 miles12
Port Neches3.0 miles16
Gladys3.1 miles19

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 Central GardensAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981291The 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 1373033. 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.