Hardin, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hardin-Rye census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77575. The Survey maps it on the Hardin quadrangle. 768 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 82 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHardin fell from 819 to 768 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 | 819 | |
| 2020 | 768 | -51 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1943 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Daisetta quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
21 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Hardin between 1992 and 2013, burning about 707 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 43 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | 70 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 July 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8038 |
| 19 July 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 405 |
| 19 July 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 407 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hardin in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 10 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hardin | $15,000 | Power lines down. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hardin | $13,000 | Trees and power lines down. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Hardin | $10,500 | Golf ball size hail. |
| April 2000 | Hail | Hardin | $10,000 | no account filed |
| November 2007 | Lightning | Hardin | $8,000 | Lightning strike sparked a large crude oil tank fire. |
| November 2007 | Hail | Hardin | $5,000 | Penny sized hail damaged the windshield of a law enforcement vehicle. |
| December 2005 | Flash Flood | Hardin | $5,000 | Flooded streets in and around Hardin. |
| September 1998 | Flash Flood | Hardin | $5,000 | High water on CR 2099. |
| December 1995 | Hail | Hardin | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hardin | $3,000 | A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds that downed some trees near Hardin Elementary School. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Hardin | $3,000 | Golf ball sized hail. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Hardin | $3,000 | Golf ball sized hail. |
| February 1998 | Hail | Hardin | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Hardin | $2,000 | no account filed |
| January 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hardin | $1,000 | Small tree down. |
| February 2003 | Hail | Hardin | $1,000 | Nickel sized hail |
| April 2017 | Hail | Hardin | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Hardin. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeland | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Sandune | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Frige Settlement | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Pedeco | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Dowdel Settlement | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| New Hope | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Mariam | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Tanner Settlement | 4.4 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 Hardin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982052 | 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 1337333. 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.






