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Nassau Bay, Texas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77058. It stands on Cow Bayou. The Survey maps it on the League City quadrangle. 5,347 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Nassau Bay within Harris County

On record in Nassau Bay

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Nassau Bay grew from 4,002 to 5,347 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
20104,002
20205,347+1,345 (+34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

37 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Nassau Bay between 2008 and 2020, burning about 250 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service21695 IH45
19 September 2016Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH OR BRUSH-AND-GRASS
7 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12-0000523
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000474
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000473
25 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE094
12 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE094
10 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE094

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris 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 Nassau Bay: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Halite, 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
Seabrook Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Webster Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1934

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nassau Bay in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2015: 2 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 6 deaths. 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
May 2015Flash FloodNassau Bay6 killed, $25,000,000Heavy rain produced flash flooding in and around the city of Houston that caused numerous creek and bayou overflows. Multiple water rescues were conducted. Numerous roads were impassable due to flooding that was as high as six feet deep. Hundreds of vehicles were stranded in the flood water. Flood waters inundated at least 2,585 homes and 73 commercial buildings. Many bayous, including Brays, Keegans, Buffalo (610 Loop to Downtown Houston), White Oak, Armand, and Halls were out of banks. Additional flooding occurred along Brickhouse Gully, South Mayde Creek, San Jacinto River, Clear Creek, Rummel Creek, Willow Water Hole, Cypress Creek, Little Cypress Creek, Willow Creek and Spring Creek. There were six directly related drowning fatalities.
March 2002HailNassau Bay$5,000Hail of 3/4 inch was reported in EL Lago on the north side of Clear Lake.
October 2009Flash FloodNassau Bay-Upper Bay Road was closed due to flooding around the 18700.

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
Clear Lake City1.5 miles19
Webster1.5 miles19
University Green1.7 miles19
Clear Lake2.0 miles18
Camino South2.3 miles18
Pipers Meadow2.6 miles18
El Lago2.8 miles19
Kilkare (historical)2.8 miles19

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 Nassau BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q427804The 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 1388574. 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.