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Kendleton, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Orchard-Kendleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77451. It stands on Brooks Branch. The Survey maps it on the Kendleton quadrangle. 343 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 95 feet above sea level.

Kendleton within Fort Bend County

On record in Kendleton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Kendleton fell from 466 to 343 between 2000 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
2000466
2010380-86 (-18%)
2020343-37 (-10%)

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

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kendleton between 2009 and 2011, burning about 300 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
18 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEAST BERNARD FIRE
18 January 2009Debris and open burning100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service300 CR 219

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend County

Storms near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kendleton in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 3 deaths and 4 injuries. 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
August 2017Flash FloodKendleton3 killed, $8,000,000,000There were numerous road closures around the Rosenberg and Richmond areas. Some of these roads included Highway 90 at Highway 36 and Lane Drive, Lane Drive at Mustang Road and I-69 at FM 762 and Reading Road. Major record level flooding of both the Brazos and San Bernard Rivers caused significant home flooding from Richmond to Rosharon. Massive flooding occurred in Tierra Grande subdivision along the San Bernard River in southwestern Fort Bend County. Home flooding occurred at Valley Lodge in Simonton, along Edgewood and Baudet Roads in Richmond, along Bar, Barker, Cumings, Sixth Street, Avenue B and Rio Brazos Roads in Rosenberg. Sections of FM 2759 as well as the Grand River, Rivers Edge and Pecan Estates in Thompsons flooded. Many countywide roads became inundated in flood waters including, but not limited to, Highway 90A, Pitts Road, FM 1489, FM 723, FM 1093, FM 359, SH 6 feeder roads, Sienna Parkway, Carrol Road, McKeever Road, Knights Court, Miller Road, river Oaks Road, Thompsons Ferry Road, Strange Drive, Greenwood Drive, Second Street and low lying roads in Quail Valley in Missouri City. Due to record pool levels in Barker Reservoir, homes in Cinco Ranch flooded. Big Creek flooding in Needville caused the flooding of homes on Ansel Road. Flooding being reported in or within homes in Missouri City with water rescues being conducted off of the Westpark Tollway in the Jeanetta Sharpstown area.
March 2022Tornado (EF0)Kendleton4 hurt, $100,000This EF1 tornado produced a path of damage that included the flipping of an RV home, the uprooting of a few large trees and severe damage to another home. There were four injuries to the occupants of the RV. Damage was mainly EF0 but rated a minimal EF1 based on damage to the second property.
November 2003Flash FloodKendleton$80,000Extensive flooding in and around Kendleton. Flooding extended into the towns of Needville and Mission Bend.
October 2003Thunderstorm WindKendleton$60,000Extensive damage to local area college. Roof and water damage to campus buildings and dormitories.
August 2015LightningKendleton$15,000A car was severely damaged.
March 2024HailKendleton-Golf ball sized hail was reported.
January 2017Flash FloodKendleton-Several roads were flooded and impassable in and around the U.S. 59 corridor, including the Highway 90 A and the Newton Drive areas in and around Richmond.
September 2003Funnel CloudKendleton-Funnel cloud reported at Hwy 59 and Lum Road.

Every storm recorded in Fort Bend 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
Powell Point2.5 miles8
Beasley5.2 miles9
Tavener6.2 miles10
Needville9.0 miles10
McHattie10.1 miles9
Pleak10.3 miles10
Orchard10.7 miles10
Fairchilds11.4 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 KendletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981272The 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 1339029. 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.