Inez, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Victoria South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77968. The Survey maps it on the Inez quadrangle. 2,641 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 66 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresInez grew from 2,098 to 2,641 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 | 2,098 | |
| 2020 | 2,641 | +543 (+26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1951 USGS Inez quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Port Lavaca quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Inez quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
94 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Inez between 2005 and 2020, burning about 6,171 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 burning | 43 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BENNOW |
| 21 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 201 RODEO RD.` |
| 20 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 444 GRASS FIRE |
| 16 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HIGHWAY 59 GRASS FIRE |
| 9 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | OLD HIGHWAY ROAD FIRE |
| 9 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FRANZ |
| 6 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | RODEO FIRE |
| 4 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OLD HIGHWAY ROAD FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inez in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2020 | Flash Flood | Inez | $100,000 | Miller Field for baseball in Inez near Highway 59 and Farm to Market Road 444 was flooded with a foot of water. There were 5 residents cutoff from emergency services in their homes due to flood waters in Inez. Water was flowing over the roadway on Keeran Road at Farm to Market Road 444. A bridge on Ocelot Road in Inez was damaged. |
| September 2020 | Flood | Inez | $100,000 | Flood waters from rainfall up to 10 inches overnight were slow to recede in the Inez area. Up to a foot of water flooded baseball fields in Inez. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inez | $25,000 | NWS storm survey determined straight-line winds around 60 mph struck a small community in rural eastern Victoria County 10 to 15 miles south of Inez. One barn was destroyed and part of the roof was removed from an adjacent barn. Local corn crops were damaged also. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inez | $10,000 | Spotter reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 63 mph in Inez. The wind bent the mast holding the weather station equipment and took off shingles from the roof of the spotter's house. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inez | - | Wind gust around 60 mph was reported near Inez. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inez | - | Spotter reported a 60 mph gust near Inez. |
| March 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inez | - | A trained spotter reported pea sized hail and a peak wind gust of 62 mph from a Davis Weather System. |
| May 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Inez | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Inez | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Flash Flood | Inez | - | 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.
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 Inez | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q970436 | 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 1360007. 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.





