Lumberton, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lumberton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77657. It stands on Walton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Silsbee quadrangle. 13,554 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLumberton grew from 11,943 to 13,554 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 11,943 | |
| 2020 | 13,554 | +1,611 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Silsbee quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Silsbee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
225 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Lumberton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,820 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 35 were 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 | 117 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 35 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 211 |
| 27 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 2008 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lumberton: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barry & Barry Pit Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
23 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lumberton in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2007: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 tornado, 3 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2006 | Flood | Lumberton | $2,000,000 | Two day rain totals of 12 to 18 inches resulted in long duration flooding across portions of Hardin County. The hardest hit areas were along near Village Creek near Lumberton, where many roads were flooded for almost a week and homes were cut off by high water. Between 20 to 25 homes near Brushy Creek had flood damage. Another 75 homes were damaged across the county. |
| June 2001 | Flash Flood | Lumberton | $500,000 | Southern sections of Hardin County received between six and ten inches of rain in less than six hours, resulting in almost 40 homes flooded in rural portions of the Sour Lake to Lumberton area. |
| November 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lumberton | $100,000 | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Tornado (F1) | Lumberton | $100,000 | no account filed |
| February 2007 | Flash Flood | Lumberton | $50,000 | Between 10 and 20 homes had 1 to 3 inches of water in them after three to five inches of rain had fallen. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lumberton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| January 1998 | Flash Flood | Lumberton | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lumberton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lumberton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lumberton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lumberton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Lumberton | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Lumberton | - | Golf ball-size hail and many trees and power lines were reported down by DPS. No injuries or damage cost reported. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lumberton | - | Golf ball-size hail and many trees and power lines were reported down by DPS. No injuries or damage cost reported. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lumberton | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in Lumberton. |
| January 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Lumberton | - | A tornado destroyed a car wash and took the roof off a recreational vehicle parked behind a shopping center. It knocked down several trees along Highway 96. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lumberton | - | Several large trees were uprooted in the Lumberton area. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Lumberton | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Lumberton | - | no account filed |
| December 2005 | Hail | Lumberton | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Lumberton | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Lumberton | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Lumberton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fletcher | 0.6 miles | 13 | |
| Seth | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Woodcrest Acres | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Rose Hill Acres | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Loeb | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Silsbee | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Nona | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Lillard | 7.5 miles | 12 |
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 Lumberton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981436 | 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 1340738. 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.





