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.
Population over time
2 figuresCut 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,070 | |
| 2020 | 1,087 | +17 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Cut and Shoot quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Conroe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Cut And Shoot quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
195 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 126 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 8073 |
| 7 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH FORK |
| 6 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 925 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Cut And Shoot | $200,000 | This 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 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Cut And Shoot | $85,000 | This tornado moved along HWY 105. Moderate damage to homes, businesses, and a school. |
| November 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Cut And Shoot | $40,000 | Trees and signs down on Highway 105. Building and roof damage to local area flea market and surrounding residences. |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cut And Shoot | $35,000 | Trees down in and around Cut and Shoot, including one that fell through the middle of an evacuated mobile home. |
| October 2006 | Flash Flood | Cut And Shoot | $31,000 | FM 1485 closed due to high water. Flooding also reported on Ford Road between Highway 59 and Loop 494 between Humble and Woodbranch Village. |
| February 2005 | Hail | Cut And Shoot | $25,000 | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Cut And Shoot | $15,000 | Golf ball-sized hail and vehicle damage was reported in Cut and Shoot. |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cut And Shoot | $15,000 | Thunderstorm 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cut And Shoot | $15,000 | Two foot diameter tree blown onto pickup truck in Midway. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cut And Shoot | $10,000 | Several trees downed in the same direction facing toward the NE. |
| March 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cut And Shoot | $5,000 | There was property damage to a home (tree and a fence knocked down along with some displaced outdoor furnishings). |
| June 2006 | Hail | Cut And Shoot | $5,000 | Nickel-size hail. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Cut And Shoot | $5,000 | Penny size hail. |
| January 2004 | Hail | Cut And Shoot | $5,000 | 1.00" hail along Hwy 105 in Cut and Shoot that covered ground. Law officer had to pull off road during the event. |
| August 1997 | Hail | Cut And Shoot | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Cut And Shoot | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cut And Shoot | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cut And Shoot | - | Law enforcement reported a downed tree due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Cut And Shoot | - | Quarter sized hail was reported. |
| September 2019 | Flash Flood | Cut And Shoot | - | Water in businesses along Hwy 105 in Cut and Shoot. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cut And Shoot | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at around 60 mph. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groceville | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Youens | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Waukegan | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Four Corners | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Deerwood | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Beach | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Wigginsville | 5.3 miles | 13 | |
| Conroe | 5.4 miles | 14 |
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 Shoot | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982036 | 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 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.





