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.
Population over time
3 figuresCentral 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 4,106 | |
| 2010 | 4,347 | +241 (+6%) |
| 2020 | 4,373 | +26 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Port Acres quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Port Acres quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
14 since 1996Regional 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 burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GREENHILL |
| 14 June 2011 | Natural | 300 acres | Livingston Area | LAMAR FIRE |
| 31 May 2003 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 77 |
| 18 April 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 5100 N HWY 347 |
| 24 March 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 92 |
| 23 March 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 89 |
| 19 March 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HILLEBRANDT RD |
| 19 March 1996 | Debris and open burning | 85 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port Neches Salt Dome | Halite | Occurrence | 1928 | |
| Spindletop Dome Mine | Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure | Past Producer | 1950, 1952, 1976 | |
| Spindletop Wells | Bromine | Producer | Brine | |
| Maco Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sand | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Beaumont Sulfur Plant | Sulfur | Producer | ||
| Port Arthur Sulfur Plant | Sulfur | Producer | ||
| Spindletop Dome Sulfur Mine | Sulfur | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2014 | Lightning | Central Gardens | $50,000 | Lightning 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 2024 | Flash Flood | Central Gardens | $10,000 | Several streets flooded around Nederland with a few cars flooded on South 8th Street. |
| January 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Central Gardens | $1,000 | Power poles were snapped in Beauxart Gardens. Southeast Texas Regional Airport also recorded a wind gust of 55 mph. |
| July 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Central 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 2008 | Hail | Central Gardens | - | no account filed |
| December 2007 | Hail | Central Gardens | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| McFadden | 1.6 miles | 19 | |
| Nederland | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| Dowling | 1.9 miles | 19 | |
| Hebert | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Beauxart Gardens | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Lucas | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Port Neches | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Gladys | 3.1 miles | 19 |
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 Gardens | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981291 | 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 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.





