Danbury, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Angleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77534. The Survey maps it on the Danbury quadrangle. 1,671 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDanbury fell from 1,715 to 1,671 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 | 1,715 | |
| 2020 | 1,671 | -44 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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 Danbury quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Danbury quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Danbury quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Danbury between 2001 and 2012, burning about 360 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 | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 35 S @ CR 881 |
| 4 June 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge | 316 ASSIST |
| 25 October 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2012-000368 |
| 20 January 2009 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Danbury: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Danbury Salt Dome | Halite | Occurrence | 1929 |
Storms near this place
14 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danbury in 14 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 lightning, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2007 | Lightning | Danbury | 1 killed | A 30 year-old male was killed by a lighting strike while standing underneath a tree. |
| June 2007 | Lightning | Danbury | 1 hurt | Lightning strike at a Brazoria County golf course, seriously injuring one golfer. |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Danbury | $450,000 | Over 60 homes had at least a couple of inches of water in them within the town of Danbury. The worst flooding occurred in the eastern and western side of town, or in the vicinity of the sloughs. Sections of County Roads 208, 201 and 211 were impassable due to the flooding. |
| August 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Danbury | $100,000 | The tornado began in Danbury and damaged a barn along with several trees off of County Road 207. The tornado then crossed Hwy 35 and moved over an open field. The tornado then snapped and/or downed several trees along County Rd 45 before lifting at the Crocodile Encounter on County Rd 48. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danbury | $30,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds caused significant home roof damage and blew over an RV beside the home. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danbury | $25,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a barn and metal shed. A calf was killed by flying debris while two other calves were injured. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danbury | $18,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds damaged three rice silos and blew a large tank into a ditch. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danbury | $4,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a dilapidated barn and downed trees. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danbury | $4,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a large storage shed and slid a fully loaded stock car semi-trailer off a driveway. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danbury | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew an oil well work-over rig on its side. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Danbury | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danbury | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew over a utility pole on Wolfglen Estates Drive. |
| March 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Danbury | $1,000 | This EF0 tornado snapped large tree limbs off a few trees. A child's playhouse was thrown a hundred yards. This tornado was captured on a video by the public. |
| December 2024 | Hail | Danbury | - | A video posted on social media showed large hail in Danbury. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Angleton | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Peterson Landing | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Chenango | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Chocolate Springs | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Anchor | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Chocolate Bayou | 7.7 miles | 11 | |
| Van Pelt | 8.0 miles | 11 |
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 Danbury | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q979156 | 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 1355621. 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.






