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.
Population over time
2 figuresFulshear 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,134 | |
| 2020 | 16,856 | +15,722 (+1386%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Fulshear quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2009Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HUNT ROAD |
| 17 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 12 February 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
19 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulshear | $1,000,000 | Fulshear 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 2004 | Flash Flood | Fulshear | $250,000 | Flooding in the Pecan Hill subdivision. 15 to 20 homes flooded. Two feet of water in the worst flooded homes. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulshear | $32,000 | Hanger had upwind and downwind walls blown out at Westheimer Airport. One plane was destroyed. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Fulshear | $12,000 | Quarter size hail. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulshear | $6,000 | Trees were downed onto power lines near the North Karaugh Drive and Winner Foster Road intersection. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Fulshear | $6,000 | Penny size hail. |
| January 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Fulshear | $5,000 | Witnesses 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 2012 | Flash Flood | Fulshear | $5,000 | Flash 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 2003 | Hail | Fulshear | $5,000 | 3/4 inch hail. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Fulshear | $3,000 | Penny size hail. |
| February 1998 | Hail | Fulshear | $3,000 | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulshear | $1,000 | Tree down. |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulshear | $1,000 | 60 mph wind gust. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulshear | - | Wind gust occurred at a Tempest Weather System site. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulshear | - | Roof damage was reported in the Polo Ranch community off of Main street in Fulshear. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fulshear | - | Fences were downed and three trampolines were mangled. One trampoline was displaced in another yard. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Fulshear | - | 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 2017 | Flash Flood | Fulshear | - | FM 1093 closed east of FM 723 due to flooding. |
| June 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Fulshear | - | A funnel cloud was sighted just west of Fulshear. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weston Lakes | 2.0 miles | 9 | |
| Pleasant Hill | 2.5 miles | 9 | |
| Pittsville (historical) | 2.6 miles | 9 | |
| Simonton | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Foster | 4.5 miles | 10 | |
| Orchard | 7.0 miles | 10 | |
| Pin Oak Village | 7.4 miles | 13 | |
| Falcon Point | 7.6 miles | 13 |
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 Fulshear | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q920528 | The 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.





