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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.

Inez within Victoria County

Population over time

2 figures

Inez 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,098
20202,641+543 (+26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

94 since 2005

Regional 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 burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
25 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBENNOW
21 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service201 RODEO RD.`
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 444 GRASS FIRE
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 59 GRASS FIRE
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD HIGHWAY ROAD FIRE
9 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFRANZ
6 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRODEO FIRE
4 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD HIGHWAY ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Victoria County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2020Flash FloodInez$100,000Miller 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 2020FloodInez$100,000Flood 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 2012Thunderstorm WindInez$25,000NWS 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 2011Thunderstorm WindInez$10,000Spotter 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 2011Thunderstorm WindInez-Wind gust around 60 mph was reported near Inez.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindInez-Spotter reported a 60 mph gust near Inez.
March 2010Thunderstorm WindInez-A trained spotter reported pea sized hail and a peak wind gust of 62 mph from a Davis Weather System.
May 2004Funnel CloudInez-no account filed
May 1997HailInez-no account filed
March 1997Flash FloodInez-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Victoria 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
Telferner6.6 miles8
Wood Hi8.1 miles8
Salem8.8 miles8
Carr11.7 miles8
Dupre12.5 miles9
Guadalupe12.7 miles8
Victoria13.3 miles9
Dacosta13.4 miles8

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 InezAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970436The 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.