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Missouri City, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Stafford-Missouri City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77489. The Survey maps it on the Missouri City quadrangle. 74,259 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 79 feet above sea level.

Missouri City within Fort Bend County

Population over time

2 figures

Missouri City grew from 67,358 to 74,259 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
201067,358
202074,259+6,901 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

40 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Missouri City between 2006 and 2020, burning about 369 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1
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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE073
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE073
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE080
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE048
4 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE059
10 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE080
1 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceA48D59D68E48E59E68E73E82L51L68M10SF24
24 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE048

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Missouri City: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Halite, Bromine, 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
Blue Ridge MineHalite, BromineProducer1903
Pugmill #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fort Bend County

Storms near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Missouri City in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2001HailMissouri City$2,000,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMissouri City$100,000Wind damage occurred along the Joann Street area and included a construction company and nursery, with significant damage to an awning and a metal roof. There were also downed trees. Damage was pushed toward thew northeast.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindMissouri City$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree onto a home on Mackworth Drive. Nearby, two doors were bent at a storage unit facility on Mula Circle.
April 1993Tornado (F1)Missouri City$50,000A storm spotter reported tornado in the Glen Lakes Road Area. Considerable roof damage occurred to the Lane Elementary School and to numerous homes. Trees and fences were blown down. A tornado was reported in Orchard, no damage indicated.
April 2004HailMissouri City$15,000Quarter-size hail reported at the Quail Valley subdivision.
July 1998HailMissouri City$5,0003/4" hail and 60 mph winds at U.S. 90A & Gessner.
April 2003HailMissouri City$5,000no account filed
May 2015Thunderstorm WindMissouri City$2,000A CWOP site (KC5KAW) reported downed fences from this wind gust.
March 2024HailMissouri City-Quarter sized hail was reported via mPing.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindMissouri City-Multiple trees were downed in the vicinity of Independence Blvd in Ft Bend County.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindMissouri City-Trees and large limbs were downed by severe storm winds on Pike Road and just north within the Vaccaro Manor subdivision.
August 2006Funnel CloudMissouri City-Sighted near the intersection of FM 2234 and McHard Road.

Every storm recorded in Fort Bend 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
Kingsway0.5 miles11
Vacarro Manor0.8 miles14
Fondren Grove1.1 miles14
Stafford1.1 miles11
Missouri City Estates1.3 miles14
Hunters Glen1.5 miles11
Fifth Street1.6 miles11
Chasewood2.0 miles11

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 Missouri CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980055The 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 1374972. 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.