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Industry, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Industry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78944. It stands on Pastoren Creek. The Survey maps it on the Industry quadrangle. 268 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 312 feet above sea level.

Industry within Austin County

Population over time

2 figures

Industry fell from 304 to 268 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
2010304
2020268-36 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Industry between 2000 and 2013, burning about 34 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
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID GIVEN
28 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 81
16 February 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHROEDER RD GRASS FIRE
2 December 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID
5 November 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE (INDUSTRY VFD)
15 October 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNATTENDED CONTROLLED BURN
26 January 2011Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE (MUTUAL AID)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Austin County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Industry in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 flash flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 2 deaths. 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
January 2007Flash FloodIndustry2 killed, $8,000A vehicle drove into a low water crossing and was swept 100 yards downstream. Of the three persons in the vehicle, one escaped to shore while the other two perished due to drowning. Their bodies were discovered between 3/4 of a mile and 2 miles downstream from the mostly-submerged vehicle.
November 2007Flash FloodIndustry$60,000Flooding in and around the intersection of Rinn Road and FM 109. Three vehicles were swept off the road. Three occupants were successfully rescued from one of the three vehicles after it became pinned against bridge pilings. One home in the area suffered water damage.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindIndustry$25,000Windows blown out of a house along SH 159.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindIndustry$15,000Trees down.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindIndustry$12,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees around the Industry area.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindIndustry$8,000Numerous signs blown down.
June 1997Flash FloodIndustry$5,000HWY 109 & FM 2502 closed due to high water
October 1994Thunderstorm WindIndustry$5,000A metal Barn near the town of Industry was destroyed by downburst winds around 2 am Saturday morning.
August 2003HailIndustry$2,000no account filed
January 2024Flash FloodIndustry-Water was over FM 2754 around East Mill Creek.
January 2024Flash FloodIndustry-FM 1371 was closed near Caney Creek.
January 2024Flash FloodIndustry-FM 109 is closed.
August 2017Flash FloodIndustry-Portions of FM 109 between Industry and New Ulm was closed due to flooding.||Record level flooding along the Brazos River in San Felipe caused several homes to flood along FM 1458.
June 2007HailIndustry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Austin 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
Rock House3.0 miles9
Rockhouse3.0 miles9
Post Oak Point3.3 miles9
Bleiblerville3.8 miles10
Welcome3.9 miles10
Krebsville4.5 miles9
Nelsonville5.2 miles10
New Ulm5.6 miles10

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 IndustryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979263The 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 1360006. 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.