Colmesneil, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Colmesneil-Chester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75938. It stands on One Mile Branch. The Survey maps it on the Colmesneil quadrangle. 542 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 272 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresColmesneil fell from 596 to 542 between 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 596 | |
| 2020 | 542 | -54 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Woodville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Colmesneil quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Livingston quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
136 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Colmesneil between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,290 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 9 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 | 89 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS |
| 29 September 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 624 |
| 16 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNK |
| 14 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BEUDREAUX |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
34 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colmesneil in 34 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 23 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $75,000 | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $50,000 | A tree fell on a house in Colmesneil and almost destroyed the home. Trees and power lines were also reported down across the rest of Tyler County. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $20,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew trees down from Colmesnelle to Doucette and Hillister. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $10,000 | no account filed |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $10,000 | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $5,000 | The Emergency Manager of Tyler County reported 11 large oak trees down along highway 69 near Colmesneil. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Colmesneil | $5,000 | Flooding along wolf creek caused water to enter a camp around 3 feet deep. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $5,000 | Entergy reported widespread power outages throughout northern Tyler County. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $4,000 | Strong winds in an outer band well ahead of Beryl damaged trees and power lines in northern Tyler County. Approximately 800 power outages were reported by the emergency manager. |
| January 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $3,000 | A severe thunderstorm damaged or downed several trees and power lines in Colmesneil. One home also sustained minor roof damage. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $3,000 | The Tyler County Sheriffs' Department reported numerous trees down from Colmesneil to Woodville with a passing storm. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $2,000 | no account filed |
| December 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $2,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $1,000 | A tree was blown down onto FM 256 East. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $1,000 | Trees were downed in the Colmesneil area. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | $1,000 | Tyler County Sheriff Office reported a tree blown down on Highway 255 north of Colmesneil. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | - | A mesonet recorded a wind gust of 69 knots with a thunderstorm. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Colmesneil | - | The emergency manager of Tyler County reported quarter sized hail. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Colmesneil | - | The emergency manager of Tyler County relayed a report of large hail. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Colmesneil | - | Nickle-sized hail and large tree limbs down in Colmesneil. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Colmesneil | - | Nickle-sized hail and large tree limbs down in Colmesneil. |
| April 1993 | Hail | Colmesneil | - | The sheriff's office reported dime-size hail in Colmesneil. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Colmesneil | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Colmesneil | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Colmesneil | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Colmesneil | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Hail | Colmesneil | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Colmesneil | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cima | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Haralson Lakes | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Dies Community | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Doucette | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Rockland | 7.7 miles | 16 | |
| Woodville | 9.2 miles | 12 | |
| Chester | 9.3 miles | 12 | |
| Magnolia Hills | 9.4 miles | 12 |
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 Colmesneil | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981758 | 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 1354805. 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.






