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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.

Holiday Beach within Aransas County

Population over time

2 figures

Holiday 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.

YearPeople Change
2010514
2020526+12 (+2%)

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

38 since 2005

Regional 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Smoking1
Natural1

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 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1774 COTTON MODULE FIRE
8 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAransas National Wildlife RefugeST. CHARLES BAY FIRE
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service525 FOREST OAK LANE
8 July 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOIS D ARC FIRE
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12TH/BYPASS 35
4 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOLIDAY BEACH BRUSH FIRE 7-4
4 July 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTEJAS ROAD FIRE
4 July 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMYSTIC OAK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Aransas County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017HailHoliday Beach$250,000Video submitted through social media showed tennis ball sized hail in Holiday Beach.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindHoliday Beach$250,000NWS 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 2018Tornado (EF0)Holiday Beach$50,000Tornado 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 2012Tornado (EF0)Holiday Beach$2,000NWS 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 2021Flash FloodHoliday Beach-High water was over the roads in several places from Rockport and Fulton to Holiday Beach.
July 2021FloodHoliday Beach-A roughly 20 mile stretch of Highway 35 between Holiday Beach and Tivoli was closed due to high water.
July 2021Flash FloodHoliday Beach-State Highway 35 was closed due to flooding.
July 2021Heavy RainHoliday 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 2017HailHoliday Beach-Golf ball sized hail occurred in Lamar.
September 1998Flash FloodHoliday Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aransas 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
Lamar2.0 miles9
Copano Village6.1 miles11
Fulton7.6 miles11
Key Allegro9.0 miles11
Spanish Village10.1 miles6
Rockport10.5 miles11
Shell Ridge12.1 miles15
Palm Harbor14.4 miles15

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 BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q431033The 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.