Louise, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Louise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77455. The Survey maps it on the Louise quadrangle. 889 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 85 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresLouise fell from 977 to 889 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 | 977 | |
| 2010 | 995 | +18 (+2%) |
| 2020 | 889 | -106 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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.
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Louise quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS El Campo quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Louise between 2008 and 2013, burning about 77 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 June 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 February 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 30000 US 59 |
| 20 January 2008 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 January 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 59NB |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Louise in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louise | 1 hurt, $5,000 | A parked 18-wheeler tractor trailer was blown over at the intersection of Highway 59 and FM 441 near Hilje. The driver suffered minor injuries. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Louise | $40,000 | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Louise | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Louise | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louise | $6,000 | A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds that blew down a billboard along Business 59 near Louise. |
| February 1998 | Hail | Louise | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | Louise | - | Local emergency managers reported water covering roads across Louise. |
| September 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Louise | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillje | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| Plainview | 4.2 miles | 8 | |
| Round Mott | 8.7 miles | 8 | |
| El Campo | 9.2 miles | 8 | |
| Danevang | 11.0 miles | 8 | |
| Hahn | 11.7 miles | 8 | |
| Jones Creek | 13.0 miles | 8 | |
| Pierce | 13.9 miles | 8 |
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 Louise | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982116 | 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 1361870. 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.



