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Clear Lake Shores, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Texas City-League City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77565. It stands on Jarbo Bayou. The Survey maps it on the League City quadrangle. 1,258 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Clear Lake Shores within Galveston County

Population over time

3 figures

Clear Lake Shores grew from 721 to 1,258 between 1970 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
1970721
20101,063
20201,258+195 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Clear Lake Shores between 2008 and 2018, burning about 280 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
29 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1910 DELLORE, LC, FIRE
13 April 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWFD180000577
26 February 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOUSTON
18 December 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service800 E NASA
9 November 2008Arson/incendiarism50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000607
28 October 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH OR BRUSH-AND-GRASS
30 January 2009Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAYRIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Galveston County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clear Lake Shores in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2009: 2 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindClear Lake Shores$8,000Large tree downed on a car in Clear Lake Shores.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindClear Lake Shores$3,000Large trees were downed in the Clear Lake Forest subdivision.

Every storm recorded in Galveston 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
Lazy Bend0.3 miles19
Kemah0.7 miles19
Glen Cove0.9 miles19
Bay Breeze0.9 miles19
Foster Place1.1 miles19
Kemah Park1.4 miles19
Seagate1.4 miles19
Lakeside1.5 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 Clear Lake ShoresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970514The 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 1332954. 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.