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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.

Clute within Brazoria County

Population over time

3 figures

Clute 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.

YearPeople Change
200010,424
201011,211+787 (+8%)
202010,604-607 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

13 since 2001

Regional 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
Smoking4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
22 August 2012Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceYELLOWSTONE LEVEE
4 July 2013Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRAZOS RIVER AT BAYWOOD
12 July 2011Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHINTECH
4 June 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOW
19 June 2013Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceYELLOWSTONE LEVEE
1 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAMOTH LAKE
21 February 2014Equipment and vehicle use67 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIDE-A-WAY
12 February 2009Smoking7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAVE.G/LEVEE RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gulf Chem and Metallurgical PlantVanadium, MolybdenumProducer
Stratton RidgeSaltUnknown
Stratton Ridge MineHalitePast Producer1913
A P Green RefractoriesMagnesiteProducer
Gunnels Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Leggett Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Us Gypsum Freeport PlantMagnesiteProducer

Every working recorded in Brazoria County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2000HailClute$50,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindClute$15,000Storage building roof ripped off and blown over a neighboring row of storage units. The roof landed near another building.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindClute$15,000Tree and telephone pole down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindClute$7,000Two foot diameter tree down at Highway 288 and Ash Road.
June 1997Flash FloodClute$5,000Street/ditch flooding in Clute.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindClute$5,000Large limbs blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindClute-Power lines were downed in the town of Clute.
July 2007Funnel CloudClute-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brazoria 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
Lake Barbara0.5 miles13
Lake Jackson2.0 miles13
Ross2.2 miles13
Richwood2.2 miles13
Velasco Heights3.2 miles12
Oakland3.3 miles9
Oyster Creek3.9 miles12
Gulf Park4.5 miles9

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 CluteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q974104The 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.