Clute, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Brazosport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77531. The Survey maps it on the Lake Jackson quadrangle. 10,604 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresClute grew from 10,424 to 10,604 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 | 10,424 | |
| 2010 | 11,211 | +787 (+8%) |
| 2020 | 10,604 | -607 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1943 USGS Snipe quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Snipe quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Lake Jackson quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Clute between 2001 and 2014, burning about 605 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | YELLOWSTONE LEVEE |
| 4 July 2013 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRAZOS RIVER AT BAYWOOD |
| 12 July 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SHINTECH |
| 4 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DOW |
| 19 June 2013 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | YELLOWSTONE LEVEE |
| 1 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MAMOTH LAKE |
| 21 February 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 67 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HIDE-A-WAY |
| 12 February 2009 | Smoking | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | AVE.G/LEVEE RD. |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Clute: 5 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Magnesite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Vanadium, Molybdenum. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gulf Chem and Metallurgical Plant | Vanadium, Molybdenum | Producer | ||
| Stratton Ridge | Salt | Unknown | ||
| Stratton Ridge Mine | Halite | Past Producer | 1913 | |
| A P Green Refractories | Magnesite | Producer | ||
| Gunnels Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Leggett Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Us Gypsum Freeport Plant | Magnesite | Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clute in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2008: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2000 | Hail | Clute | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clute | $15,000 | Storage building roof ripped off and blown over a neighboring row of storage units. The roof landed near another building. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clute | $15,000 | Tree and telephone pole down. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clute | $7,000 | Two foot diameter tree down at Highway 288 and Ash Road. |
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Clute | $5,000 | Street/ditch flooding in Clute. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clute | $5,000 | Large limbs blown down. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clute | - | Power lines were downed in the town of Clute. |
| July 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Clute | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Barbara | 0.5 miles | 13 | |
| Lake Jackson | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Ross | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Richwood | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Velasco Heights | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Oakland | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Oyster Creek | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Gulf Park | 4.5 miles | 9 |
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 Clute | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q974104 | 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 1354690. 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.






