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Liberty, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Liberty-Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77575. It stands on Big Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle. 8,279 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Liberty within Liberty County

On record in Liberty

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Liberty fell from 8,397 to 8,279 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
20108,397
20208,279-118 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Liberty between 1996 and 2018, burning about 208 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
21 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 March 2000Debris and open burning16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 250
13 March 2000Arson/incendiarism120 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 293
1 March 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8006
5 December 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIBERTY 14:19
11 December 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 October 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Liberty: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
South Liberty OccurrenceSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Gypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence1905

Every working recorded in Liberty County

Storms near this place

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty in 31 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 6 tornado, 5 flash flood. The reports record 24 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
May 1995Tornado (F1)Liberty12 hurt, $750,000Super cell moved across Lake Houston and intensified to form a mesocyclone as it moved into Liberty County. This super cell produced four tornadoes as moved from west to east across the county. The third of the four tornadoes touched down in downtown Liberty and was the most significant. Twelve people were injured with two requiring to be hospitalized.
May 1995Tornado (F1)Liberty12 hurt, $750,000Super cell moved across Lake Houston and intensified to form a mesocyclone as it moved into Liberty County. This super cell produced four tornadoes as it moved from west to east across the county. The third of the four tornadoes touched down in downtown Liberty and was the most significant. Twelve people were injured with two requiring to be hospitalized.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindLiberty$70,000Damage to homes, carports and patio covers, high school press box and dugouts; trees and power lines down.
April 2006Tornado (F1)Liberty$60,000Tornado caused extensive damage along CR 143 off of FM 563. Major roof damage to area homes with numerous trees and power lines down.
November 2004Thunderstorm WindLiberty$40,000Damage to retail store, several cars in parking lot also damaged.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLiberty$40,000Home damaged and numerous trees and power lines down.
September 2002Flash FloodLiberty$35,000Flooding in Liberty and Dayton; portions of Hwy 90 closed in Liberty.
December 2002Tornado (F0)Liberty$30,000Building damaged.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindLiberty$15,000Trees down.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindLiberty$15,000Power lines down in area.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLiberty$15,000Numerous reports of trees down across northern portion of county.
May 2005HailLiberty$12,000Golf ball size hail on FM 1011.
April 2000HailLiberty$10,000no account filed
April 2012Thunderstorm WindLiberty$5,000Numerous trees downed across the western portion of the county.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindLiberty$5,000Numerous trees were reported downed across the county.
October 1997Tornado (F0)Liberty$5,000Trees blown down.
January 1997Thunderstorm WindLiberty$5,000no account filed
August 1996HailLiberty$5,000no account filed
April 2019Thunderstorm WindLiberty$4,000There was a large tree blown down onto a car.
March 2009HailLiberty$4,000Golf ball-sized hail was reported in Liberty.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindLiberty$3,000Trees blown down along HWY 90.
April 2012HailLiberty$2,000Dime and quarter sized hail fell at the Liberty County Sheriff's Office for approximately 7 minutes.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindLiberty$2,000KSHM radio had trees blown down.
April 2023HailLiberty-There was quarter sized hail in Liberty.
September 2019Flash FloodLiberty-Numerous vehicles stranded by high water in and near Liberty.
August 2017Flash FloodLiberty-Portions of FM 563 were covered with high water and had become impassable.
April 2015Flash FloodLiberty-Flooding was reported between Liberty and Anahuac on FM 563, and also between Liberty and Daisetta along FM 160 East.
June 2013HailLiberty-A severe thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail.
April 2009HailLiberty-Penny sized hail was observed in Liberty.
June 2006Flash FloodLiberty-Highway 90 flooded in the town of Liberty.
November 2004Tornado (F0)Liberty-This tornado occurred over open land and caused no damage.

Every storm recorded in Liberty 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
Champ d'Asile (historical)1.6 miles13
South Liberty2.0 miles13
Ames2.8 miles13
Atascosito2.9 miles13
Negros Liberty Settlement (historical)3.2 miles13
Sandune4.7 miles13
Dayton4.8 miles13
Kenefick4.8 miles13

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 LibertyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981297The 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 1339866. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.