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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.

Oakhurst within San Jacinto County

Population over time

3 figures

Oakhurst 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.

YearPeople Change
2000230
2010233+3 (+1%)
2020148-85 (-36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

72 since 1992

Regional 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8076
7 September 2009Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 244
7 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2005Arson/incendiarism185 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 83
4 August 2012Debris and open burning14 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8039
4 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Jacinto County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2004Thunderstorm WindOakhurst$150,000Very large tree downed on a home.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindOakhurst$6,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
May 2003HailOakhurst$5,000no account filed
May 1997HailOakhurst$5,000no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindOakhurst$2,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed power lines on FM 946 to the southeast of Oakhurst.
April 2023HailOakhurst-There was quarter sized hail in Oakhurst.

Every storm recorded in San Jacinto 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
Palmetto Park0.9 miles13
Snow Hill5.5 miles13
Pointblank5.5 miles13
Darby Hill6.5 miles12
Staley6.8 miles12
Willow Springs7.0 miles13
Waterwood7.1 miles12
Stephen Creek7.6 miles13

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 OakhurstAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981663The 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.