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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.

Lumberton within Hardin County

Population over time

2 figures

Lumberton 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.

YearPeople Change
201011,943
202013,554+1,611 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

225 since 1992

Regional 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 burning117
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism35
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2008Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 211
27 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2008Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barry & Barry Pit DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

23 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2006FloodLumberton$2,000,000Two 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 2001Flash FloodLumberton$500,000Southern 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 2004Thunderstorm WindLumberton$100,000no account filed
October 2002Tornado (F1)Lumberton$100,000no account filed
February 2007Flash FloodLumberton$50,000Between 10 and 20 homes had 1 to 3 inches of water in them after three to five inches of rain had fallen.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLumberton$25,000no account filed
January 1998Flash FloodLumberton$10,000no account filed
April 2005Thunderstorm WindLumberton$5,000no account filed
December 2002Thunderstorm WindLumberton$5,000no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindLumberton$2,000no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindLumberton$2,000no account filed
October 2001Tornado (F0)Lumberton$2,000no account filed
April 1995HailLumberton-Golf ball-size hail and many trees and power lines were reported down by DPS. No injuries or damage cost reported.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindLumberton-Golf ball-size hail and many trees and power lines were reported down by DPS. No injuries or damage cost reported.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindLumberton-Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in Lumberton.
January 1995Tornado (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 1993Thunderstorm WindLumberton-Several large trees were uprooted in the Lumberton area.
May 2005HailLumberton-no account filed
July 2005HailLumberton-no account filed
December 2005HailLumberton-no account filed
May 2001HailLumberton-no account filed
March 1998HailLumberton-no account filed
April 1997HailLumberton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Fletcher0.6 miles13
Seth2.4 miles13
Woodcrest Acres2.8 miles14
Rose Hill Acres4.7 miles14
Loeb4.9 miles14
Silsbee5.9 miles13
Nona6.8 miles13
Lillard7.5 miles12

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 LumbertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981436The 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.