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Deer Park, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Southeast Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77536. It stands on Boggy Bayou. The Survey maps it on the La Porte quadrangle. 34,495 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 24 feet above sea level.

Deer Park within Harris County

Population over time

2 figures

Deer Park grew from 32,010 to 34,495 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
201032,010
202034,495+2,485 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Deer Park in 2014, burning about 4 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
Debris and open burning1

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
14 August 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Deer Park: 8 producers, 2 plants, 1 past producer. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Deepwater Clay PitClayProducer
Deer Park Sulfur PlantSulfur, ChlorineProducer
Hughes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Judson Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kaiser Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
Pasadena Fertitex Phos. Acid Pl.Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Pasadena KerleyPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Pasadena Mobil Phos. Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer1966
Pasadena Phos-Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant1991

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deer Park in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 tornado, 2 lightning. The reports record 10 injuries. 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
July 1997LightningDeer Park10 hurt, $100,000Lightning caused a chemical tank to ignite at the Shell plant. 10 injuries due to eye irritation.
August 2015LightningDeer Park$150,000A lightning strike caused a fire that destroyed a home in Deer Park.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$50,000Trees blown onto house and power poles down.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$30,000Thunderstorm wind gusts damaged the roof of a medical office in Deer Park. Radar confirmed downburst in that area.
November 2003Tornado (F0)Deer Park$30,000Tornado on Somerset Street in Deer Park with minor home damage.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$25,000Signs blown down near Ship Channel.
January 1997Tornado (F0)Deer Park$20,000no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$15,000Minor roof damage with fencing and several large trees down.
January 1997Tornado (F0)Deer Park$15,000no account filed
April 2004HailDeer Park$10,000Nickel-size hail in Deer Park.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$10,000McDonalds sign blown down.
September 2017Flash FloodDeer Park$5,000Flooding was reported between Spencer Highway and Fairmont Parkway in Pasadena. Flood waters entered a local junior college's gymnasium.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$5,000A downed power pole, fence, and tree.
June 2001HailDeer Park$5,000no account filed
March 2009HailDeer Park$2,000Quarter-sized hail was reported on Center Street.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$1,500There was tree damage caused by a thunderstorm wind gust in Deer Park.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDeer Park-Wind gust occurred at mesonet station PTKT2 650 Patricks Bayou at E 8th Street.
March 2023HailDeer Park-A member of the public measured golf ball sized hail in a residential area of Deer Park.
March 2023HailDeer Park-Video posted to social media showed estimated half dollar size hail in the Deer Park area.
June 2021HailDeer Park-Quarter-sized hail was observed north of Deer Park along Buffalo Bayou.
May 2020HailDeer Park-Pea to nickel sized hail was reported to last for fifteen minutes.
May 2019HailDeer Park-Ping pong ball sized hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
Link Five1.5 miles16
Preston Villa2.7 miles13
Golden Acres2.8 miles13
Red Bluff3.0 miles13
Spenwick Place3.1 miles16
Battleground Estates3.3 miles16
Monument Estates3.4 miles16
Stadium Estates3.4 miles13

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 Deer ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969319The 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 1334219. 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.