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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.

Danbury within Brazoria County

Population over time

2 figures

Danbury 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,715
20201,671-44 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

4 since 2001

Regional 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
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 35 S @ CR 881
4 June 2001Smokingunder an acreBrazoria National Wildlife Refuge316 ASSIST
25 October 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2012-000368
20 January 2009Debris and open burning60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Danbury Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1929

Every working recorded in Brazoria County

Storms near this place

14 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2007LightningDanbury1 killedA 30 year-old male was killed by a lighting strike while standing underneath a tree.
June 2007LightningDanbury1 hurtLightning strike at a Brazoria County golf course, seriously injuring one golfer.
April 2017Flash FloodDanbury$450,000Over 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 2017Tornado (EF0)Danbury$100,000The 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 2016Thunderstorm WindDanbury$30,000Severe thunderstorm winds caused significant home roof damage and blew over an RV beside the home.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindDanbury$25,000Severe 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 2016Thunderstorm WindDanbury$18,000Severe thunderstorm winds damaged three rice silos and blew a large tank into a ditch.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindDanbury$4,000Thunderstorm winds downed a dilapidated barn and downed trees.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindDanbury$4,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a large storage shed and slid a fully loaded stock car semi-trailer off a driveway.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindDanbury$3,000Thunderstorm winds blew an oil well work-over rig on its side.
August 2003HailDanbury$3,000no account filed
April 2016Thunderstorm WindDanbury$2,000Thunderstorm winds blew over a utility pole on Wolfglen Estates Drive.
March 2022Tornado (EF0)Danbury$1,000This 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 2024HailDanbury-A video posted on social media showed large hail in Danbury.

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
Liverpool5.8 miles11
Angleton6.1 miles11
Peterson Landing6.2 miles10
Chenango6.3 miles11
Chocolate Springs6.9 miles11
Anchor6.9 miles11
Chocolate Bayou7.7 miles11
Van Pelt8.0 miles11

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 DanburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979156The 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.