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Needville, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Needville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77461. The Survey maps it on the Needville quadrangle. 3,089 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 89 feet above sea level.

Needville within Fort Bend County

Population over time

2 figures

Needville grew from 2,823 to 3,089 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
20102,823
20203,089+266 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

32 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Needville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 674 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
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
9 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEGAN DRIVE
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism400 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNEEDVILLE
26 August 2014Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHURTA ROAD
13 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHURTA ROAD
12 August 2011Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
26 July 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJANDA ROAD
13 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
19 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 36 SOUTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend County

Storms near this place

31 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Needville in 31 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 12 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths and 3 injuries. 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 2006Flash FloodNeedville1 killed, $15,000A 56 year old male driver of a vehicle drowned when he lost control on a water covered roadway on FM 1462 near the Fort Bend-Brazoria County line. The vehicle overturned and landed upside down in a deep ditch filled with water. The victim was discovered after 6 AM.
August 2002LightningNeedville1 killedMan struck and killed by lightning in rice field along FM 442.
September 2002Tornado (F1)Needville3 hurt, $100,000Tornado injured three when mobile home was destroyed; numerous trees down too.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindNeedville$200,000no account filed
March 2024HailNeedville$50,000Tennis ball sized hail caused some damage to homes across Needville.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindNeedville$50,000Horse trailers overturned and shed destroyed.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindNeedville$45,000Couple of trees downed in and around Needville, one down on Violet Street and another at the SPJST Hall. Minor structural damage at Needville City Hall and tin roof damage to a business just north of Needville. Damage also reported to a rice dryer. A bank across Highway 36 received minor damage from the rice dryer's debris.
October 1998Tornado (F0)Needville$15,000Trees down in Needville. Trees and powerlines down across eastern portions of the county.
April 1997Flash FloodNeedville$15,000no account filed
August 2007LightningNeedville$10,000A light pole was broken in half after being struck by lightning.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindNeedville$10,000Trees blown down and damage to a mobile home.
March 1997Tornado (F0)Needville$10,000no account filed
March 2007Thunderstorm WindNeedville$5,000A barn roof blown off in Needville off of Paden Road.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindNeedville$5,000Power pole snapped.
January 1998HailNeedville$5,000Hail covering 90% of the ground.
March 2005HailNeedville$5,000no account filed
August 2009HailNeedville$4,000Public reported golfball sized hail.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindNeedville$2,000Tree damage due to high wind around the town of Needville.
May 2006Tornado (F0)Needville$2,000Tornado at FM 360 and Old Needville-Fairchilds Road caused little damage.
September 2003Thunderstorm WindNeedville$2,000Strong wind gusts downed some trees.
March 2007HailNeedville$1,000Penny-size hail.
March 2024HailNeedville-There was widespread tennis ball sized hail neat the intersection of Highway 36 and School Street.
March 2024HailNeedville-Baseball sized hail was reported via mPing.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindNeedville-Numerous power lines were downed between Beasley and Needville.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNeedville-Numerous large trees were downed.
April 2016HailNeedville-The half dollar size hail was reported in Needville.
April 2014HailNeedville-Numerous reports of dime to penny sized hail in the Needville area.
April 2013HailNeedville-A severe thunderstorm produced golf ball sized hail.
June 2008HailNeedville-Penny size hail was observed in the town of Needville.
May 2007HailNeedville-Penny to quarter-size hail.
July 2004Funnel CloudNeedville-no account filed

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
Fairchilds3.8 miles10
Guy4.8 miles11
Long Point5.6 miles10
Mooredale6.1 miles11
Pleak6.4 miles10
Beasley8.0 miles9
Kendleton9.0 miles9
Whaley Corner9.3 miles10

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 NeedvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980838The 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 1342402. 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.

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.