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Cut and Shoot, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Southeast Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77306. It stands on McRae Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cut And Shoot quadrangle. 1,087 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 190 feet above sea level.

Cut and Shoot within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Cut and Shoot grew from 1,070 to 1,087 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,070
20201,087+17 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

195 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Cut and Shoot between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,033 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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 burning126
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
9 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8073
7 September 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH FORK
6 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1992Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2011Natural1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 925

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cut and Shoot in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2021Tornado (EF1)Cut And Shoot$200,000This EF1 morning tornado tracked along a path from East Williams Road across Hillcrest and Magnolia Drives. Numerous large trees were uprooted. Some smaller pines had trunks snapped. A few trees fell on homes.
October 1997Tornado (F1)Cut And Shoot$85,000This tornado moved along HWY 105. Moderate damage to homes, businesses, and a school.
November 2004Tornado (F0)Cut And Shoot$40,000Trees and signs down on Highway 105. Building and roof damage to local area flea market and surrounding residences.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindCut And Shoot$35,000Trees down in and around Cut and Shoot, including one that fell through the middle of an evacuated mobile home.
October 2006Flash FloodCut And Shoot$31,000FM 1485 closed due to high water. Flooding also reported on Ford Road between Highway 59 and Loop 494 between Humble and Woodbranch Village.
February 2005HailCut And Shoot$25,000no account filed
March 2009HailCut And Shoot$15,000Golf ball-sized hail and vehicle damage was reported in Cut and Shoot.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindCut And Shoot$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed power lines and nine large pine trees near the intersection of SH 105 and FM 1484. There was some minor residential home damage from the fallen pine trees.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindCut And Shoot$15,000Two foot diameter tree blown onto pickup truck in Midway.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindCut And Shoot$10,000Several trees downed in the same direction facing toward the NE.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindCut And Shoot$5,000There was property damage to a home (tree and a fence knocked down along with some displaced outdoor furnishings).
June 2006HailCut And Shoot$5,000Nickel-size hail.
June 2005HailCut And Shoot$5,000Penny size hail.
January 2004HailCut And Shoot$5,0001.00" hail along Hwy 105 in Cut and Shoot that covered ground. Law officer had to pull off road during the event.
August 1997HailCut And Shoot$5,000no account filed
June 1996HailCut And Shoot$5,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindCut And Shoot$2,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCut And Shoot-Law enforcement reported a downed tree due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
September 2023HailCut And Shoot-Quarter sized hail was reported.
September 2019Flash FloodCut And Shoot-Water in businesses along Hwy 105 in Cut and Shoot.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindCut And Shoot-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at around 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Groceville1.4 miles13
Youens1.5 miles13
Waukegan1.9 miles13
Four Corners3.1 miles14
Deerwood3.3 miles13
Beach3.5 miles14
Wigginsville5.3 miles13
Conroe5.4 miles14

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 Cut and ShootAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982036The 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 1381207. 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.