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Fresno, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Stafford-Missouri City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77545. The Survey maps it on the Almeda quadrangle. 24,486 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 72 feet above sea level.

Fresno within Fort Bend County

Population over time

2 figures

Fresno grew from 19,069 to 24,486 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
201019,069
202024,486+5,417 (+28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

41 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Fresno between 2005 and 2020, burning about 450 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning15
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceE047, E080
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE080
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE047
23 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAMBRIDGE
18 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE047

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fresno: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Halite, Bromine, Salt. 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
Blue Ridge DivisionSaltProducer
Blue Ridge MineHalite, BromineProducer1903

Every working recorded in Fort Bend County

Storms near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fresno in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2015: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2002HailFresno$15,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindFresno$5,000Power lines down near FM 2234 and South Post Oak.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFresno$4,000Downed tree limbs.
June 2008HailFresno$3,000Nickel to quarter size hail occurred in the Fresno area.
April 2012HailFresno$1,000Quarter sized hail reported in Fresno.
May 2015HailFresno-Golf ball sized hail was reported north of Fresno.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindFresno-A severe thunderstorm downed trees in the Fresno area.
October 2003Tornado (F0)Fresno-Tornado touch down at intersection of FM 521 and CR 58. No reported damage.

Every storm recorded in Fort Bend 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
Palmetto1.0 miles13
Arcola Junction2.6 miles13
Arcola3.1 miles11
Duke3.1 miles13
Briar Vista3.3 miles13
Ridgemont3.6 miles13
Hobby4.0 miles13
Briarvilla4.1 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 FresnoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q74394The 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 1336203. 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.