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.
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
- Henry G. and Annie B. Green Houselisted 1996
Population over time
3 figuresKendleton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 466 | |
| 2010 | 380 | -86 (-18%) |
| 2020 | 343 | -37 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Kendleton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2009Regional 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 burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | EAST BERNARD FIRE |
| 18 January 2009 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 300 CR 219 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Kendleton | 3 killed, $8,000,000,000 | There 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 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Kendleton | 4 hurt, $100,000 | This 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 2003 | Flash Flood | Kendleton | $80,000 | Extensive flooding in and around Kendleton. Flooding extended into the towns of Needville and Mission Bend. |
| October 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kendleton | $60,000 | Extensive damage to local area college. Roof and water damage to campus buildings and dormitories. |
| August 2015 | Lightning | Kendleton | $15,000 | A car was severely damaged. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Kendleton | - | Golf ball sized hail was reported. |
| January 2017 | Flash Flood | Kendleton | - | 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 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Kendleton | - | Funnel cloud reported at Hwy 59 and Lum Road. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Powell Point | 2.5 miles | 8 | |
| Beasley | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Tavener | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Needville | 9.0 miles | 10 | |
| McHattie | 10.1 miles | 9 | |
| Pleak | 10.3 miles | 10 | |
| Orchard | 10.7 miles | 10 | |
| Fairchilds | 11.4 miles | 10 |
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 Kendleton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981272 | 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 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.




