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Nederland, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Port Arthur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77627. It sits by Smith Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Port Arthur North quadrangle. 18,856 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Nederland within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Nederland grew from 17,547 to 18,856 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
201017,547
202018,856+1,309 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Nederland between 2002 and 2013, burning about 438 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
31 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREENHILL
14 June 2011Natural300 acresLivingston AreaLAMAR FIRE
18 April 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5100 N HWY 347
24 March 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 92
23 March 2002Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 89
19 March 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHILLEBRANDT RD
4 November 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 347 / HWY 366
17 November 2005Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 387

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Nederland: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure. 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
Spindletop Dome MineSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra PurePast Producer1950, 1952, 1976
Beaumont Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
Maco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
Port Arthur Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nederland in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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
December 1997Thunderstorm WindNederland1 hurt, $50,000no account filed
April 2000Flash FloodNederland$250,000no account filed
May 2022Tornado (EF1)Nederland$100,000A few homes had minor roof damage, however one home had the roof destroyed. Numerous trees were downed or had large limbs broken. Fences were also down in the area.
January 1998Flash FloodNederland$40,000no account filed
September 2004Flash FloodNederland$10,000no account filed
February 1998Thunderstorm WindNederland$10,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindNederland$5,000A microburst produced high winds at the Jack Brooks Regional Airport. In neighboring portions of Nederland numerous trees and powerlines were also downed.
May 2004Flash FloodNederland$5,000no account filed
October 2002Thunderstorm WindNederland$5,000no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindNederland$2,000no account filed
December 2022Thunderstorm WindNederland$1,000A flagpole was snapped and leaning on a home.
April 2023HailNederland-Reported through social media.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindNederland-A Tempest weather station recorded a wind gust of 63 mph.
June 2014Funnel CloudNederland-A funnel cloud report over Nederland was passed along by Beaumont media.
October 1994Tornado (F1)Nederland-A small tornado was observed by National Weather Service personnel 2 miles southwest of the Jefferson County Airport. It damaged several telephone poles as it moved to the northeast. It took a roof off a barn at Port Acres 4 miles southwest of the airport before dissipating.
May 2004HailNederland-no account filed
March 2003HailNederland-no account filed
July 2001HailNederland-no account filed
July 1998HailNederland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Central Gardens1.9 miles12
Port Neches2.1 miles16
Beauxart Gardens2.4 miles12
Viterbo3.0 miles12
McFadden3.5 miles19
Hebert3.8 miles12
Dowling3.8 miles19
Groves4.4 miles16

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 NederlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q615136The 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 1363634. 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.