Holiday Beach, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fulton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78382. The Survey maps it on the Lamar quadrangle. 526 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHoliday Beach grew from 514 to 526 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 | 514 | |
| 2020 | 526 | +12 (+2%) |
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.
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Rockport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
38 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Holiday Beach between 2005 and 2020, burning about 481 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1774 COTTON MODULE FIRE |
| 8 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Aransas National Wildlife Refuge | ST. CHARLES BAY FIRE |
| 23 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 525 FOREST OAK LANE |
| 8 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BOIS D ARC FIRE |
| 4 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 12TH/BYPASS 35 |
| 4 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HOLIDAY BEACH BRUSH FIRE 7-4 |
| 4 July 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TEJAS ROAD FIRE |
| 4 July 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MYSTIC OAK FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holiday Beach in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 3 flash flood, 2 tornado, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017 | Hail | Holiday Beach | $250,000 | Video submitted through social media showed tennis ball sized hail in Holiday Beach. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Holiday Beach | $250,000 | NWS storm survey determined straight-line winds of approximately 70 to 80 mph struck Belaire Drive in Holiday Beach. The roof was blown off of one home which impacted 2 other homes and caused extensive damage. |
| March 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Holiday Beach | $50,000 | Tornado touched down on Belaire Drive removing the roof from one home with debris blown into another home across the street. Several power poles were snapped. |
| May 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Holiday Beach | $2,000 | NWS storm survey concluded a weak tornado touched down in rural Aransas County northeast of Holiday Beach. The tornado crossed Highway 35 snapping one telephone pole. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Holiday Beach | - | High water was over the roads in several places from Rockport and Fulton to Holiday Beach. |
| July 2021 | Flood | Holiday Beach | - | A roughly 20 mile stretch of Highway 35 between Holiday Beach and Tivoli was closed due to high water. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Holiday Beach | - | State Highway 35 was closed due to flooding. |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Holiday Beach | - | Damage estimates due to sorghum losses in the county were at 96 thousand dollars across the county due to heavy rainfall. A 35 percent loss occurred across the county. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Holiday Beach | - | Golf ball sized hail occurred in Lamar. |
| September 1998 | Flash Flood | Holiday Beach | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lamar | 2.0 miles | 9 | |
| Copano Village | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Fulton | 7.6 miles | 11 | |
| Key Allegro | 9.0 miles | 11 | |
| Spanish Village | 10.1 miles | 6 | |
| Rockport | 10.5 miles | 11 | |
| Shell Ridge | 12.1 miles | 15 | |
| Palm Harbor | 14.4 miles | 15 |
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 Holiday Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q431033 | 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 1337934. 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.





