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Fulshear, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Fulshear-Simonton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77441. The Survey maps it on the Fulshear quadrangle. 64,630 people lived here at the 2025 count. It stands 131 feet above sea level.

Fulshear within Fort Bend County

Population over time

2 figures

Fulshear grew from 1,134 to 16,856 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
20101,134
202016,856+15,722 (+1386%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Fulshear between 2009 and 2011, burning about 155 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUNT ROAD
17 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
12 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend 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 Fulshear: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fort Bend County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fulshear in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 flash flood, 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
June 1995Thunderstorm WindFulshear$1,000,000Fulshear reported 85 mph winds. Extensive damage done to the Guest Motel in Stafford and throughout Stafford. This includes tree/power lines blown down, signs down, satellite dishes down.
April 2004Flash FloodFulshear$250,000Flooding in the Pecan Hill subdivision. 15 to 20 homes flooded. Two feet of water in the worst flooded homes.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindFulshear$32,000Hanger had upwind and downwind walls blown out at Westheimer Airport. One plane was destroyed.
March 2007HailFulshear$12,000Quarter size hail.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindFulshear$6,000Trees were downed onto power lines near the North Karaugh Drive and Winner Foster Road intersection.
March 2007HailFulshear$6,000Penny size hail.
January 2012Tornado (EF0)Fulshear$5,000Witnesses observed a funnel cloud that touched down and produced EF0 tree and power line damage in the area. The tornado also lifted a paddle boat into a tree.
January 2012Flash FloodFulshear$5,000Flash flooding observed from the Rosenberg area northward. There was a road closure due to the flooding near the intersection of Falcon Landing Blvd. and Spring Green Blvd.
February 2003HailFulshear$5,0003/4 inch hail.
May 2006HailFulshear$3,000Penny size hail.
February 1998HailFulshear$3,000no account filed
March 2007Thunderstorm WindFulshear$1,000Tree down.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindFulshear$1,00060 mph wind gust.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindFulshear-Wind gust occurred at a Tempest Weather System site.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindFulshear-Roof damage was reported in the Polo Ranch community off of Main street in Fulshear.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindFulshear-Fences were downed and three trampolines were mangled. One trampoline was displaced in another yard.
August 2017Flash FloodFulshear-Sections of FM 1463 and FM 359 between Fulshear and the Grand Parkway were closed due to flooding.||Major record level flooding of both the Brazos and San Bernard Rivers caused significant home flooding from Richmond to Rosharon. Massive flooding occurred in Tierra Grande subdivision along the San Bernard River in southwestern Fort Bend County. Home flooding occurred at Valley Lodge in Simonton, along Edgewood and Baudet Roads in Richmond, along Bar, Barker, Cumings, Sixth Street, Avenue B and Rio Brazos Roads in Rosenberg. Sections of FM 2759 as well as the Grand River, Rivers Edge and Pecan Estates in Thompsons flooded. Many countywide roads became inundated in flood waters including, but not limited to, Highway 90A, Pitts Road, FM 1489, FM 723, FM 1093, FM 359, SH 6 feeder roads, Sienna Parkway, Carrol Road, McKeever Road, Knights Court, Miller Road, river Oaks Road, Thompsons Ferry Road, Strange Drive, Greenwood Drive, Second Street and low lying roads in Quail Valley in Missouri City. Due to record pool levels in Barker Reservoir, homes in Cinco Ranch flooded. Big Creek flooding in Needville caused the flooding of homes on Ansel Road.
August 2017Flash FloodFulshear-FM 1093 closed east of FM 723 due to flooding.
June 2016Funnel CloudFulshear-A funnel cloud was sighted just west of Fulshear.

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
Weston Lakes2.0 miles9
Pleasant Hill2.5 miles9
Pittsville (historical)2.6 miles9
Simonton4.2 miles9
Foster4.5 miles10
Orchard7.0 miles10
Pin Oak Village7.4 miles13
Falcon Point7.6 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 FulshearAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q920528The 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 1336299. 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.