Oakhurst, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Point Blank census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77359. The Survey maps it on the Oakhurst quadrangle. 148 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 390 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresOakhurst fell from 230 to 148 between 2000 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 230 | |
| 2010 | 233 | +3 (+1%) |
| 2020 | 148 | -85 (-36%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Oakhurst quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Oakhurst quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
72 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Oakhurst between 1992 and 2020, burning about 649 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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 burning | 37 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8076 |
| 7 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 244 |
| 7 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 185 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 83 |
| 4 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 14 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 8039 |
| 4 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakhurst in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakhurst | $150,000 | Very large tree downed on a home. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakhurst | $6,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Oakhurst | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Oakhurst | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakhurst | $2,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds downed power lines on FM 946 to the southeast of Oakhurst. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Oakhurst | - | There was quarter sized hail in Oakhurst. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palmetto Park | 0.9 miles | 13 | |
| Snow Hill | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Pointblank | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Darby Hill | 6.5 miles | 12 | |
| Staley | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| Willow Springs | 7.0 miles | 13 | |
| Waterwood | 7.1 miles | 12 | |
| Stephen Creek | 7.6 miles | 13 |
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 Oakhurst | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981663 | The 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 1382413. 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.





