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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.

Louise within Wharton County

Population over time

3 figures

Louise 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.

YearPeople Change
2000977
2010995+18 (+2%)
2020889-106 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

6 since 2008

Regional 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2

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
8 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 May 2008Debris and open burning50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 February 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service30000 US 59
20 January 2008Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 January 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service59NB

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wharton County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2008Thunderstorm WindLouise1 hurt, $5,000A 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 1999HailLouise$40,000no account filed
March 2002HailLouise$20,000no account filed
June 1998HailLouise$10,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindLouise$6,000A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds that blew down a billboard along Business 59 near Louise.
February 1998HailLouise$3,000no account filed
May 2021Flash FloodLouise-Local emergency managers reported water covering roads across Louise.
September 2006Funnel CloudLouise-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wharton 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
Hillje4.1 miles8
Plainview4.2 miles8
Round Mott8.7 miles8
El Campo9.2 miles8
Danevang11.0 miles8
Hahn11.7 miles8
Jones Creek13.0 miles8
Pierce13.9 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 LouiseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982116The 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.