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Egypt, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Southeast Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77354. It stands on Nickaburr Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oklahoma quadrangle.

Egypt within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Egypt between 1992 and 2016, burning about 704 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 burning97
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1999Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODFOREST PARKWAY NORTH
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 190
3 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 32

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

15 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Egypt in 15 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindEgypt1 killed, $50,000A home under construction collapsed due to strong thunderstorm winds. One worker that was inside was trapped and killed.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindEgypt$10,000Trees down along FM 1488 between FM 2972 and SH 242.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindEgypt$8,000Trees downed in the road at the intersection of Forestgate and Woodlands Parkway.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindEgypt$6,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees along FM 1488.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindEgypt$5,000A thunderstorm downed some medium to large trees and caused roof damage to the Bear Branch Junior High School area.
October 2009Flash FloodEgypt$5,000Numerous roads and intersections blocked due to high water, including the intersection of FM 1488 and FM 2978, the FM 1488 at Interstate 45, and Interstate 45 at Shepherd Hill.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindEgypt$2,000Trees were downed near Montgomery Drive.
April 2013HailEgypt$2,000A severe thunderstorm produced golf ball sized hail near The Woodlands.
April 2012HailEgypt$2,000Quarter sized hail reported at the intersection of FM 1488 and FM 2978 near The Woodlands.
July 2012LightningEgypt$1,000Lightning struck a house and caused a two alarm fire at 7 Acadia Place in Spring. Time estimation via radar and lightning plots shows the lightning strike could've occurred any time between 14-1505 CST.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEgypt-A member of the public reported a large tree down near the Woodlands.
May 2016HailEgypt-Dime to penny size hail in The Woodlands near the intersection of Research Forest Drive and Alden Bridge Drive.
September 2014Flash FloodEgypt-Flooding caused road closures near River Oaks Drive and around Capstone Circle.
April 2013HailEgypt-A severe thunderstorm produced quarter sized hail.
April 2013HailEgypt-A strong thunderstorm produced dime sized hail off of FM 1488.

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
Oklahoma4.8 miles13
Johnson5.5 miles13
Ventura5.6 miles11
The Woodlands5.8 miles13
Shenandoah6.3 miles13
Leonidas6.7 miles13
Mostyn6.8 miles11
Tamina7.0 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 EgyptAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5348303The 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 1335134. 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.