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Pine Forest, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Vidor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77662. It stands on Tenmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pine Forest quadrangle. 499 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Pine Forest within Orange County

Population over time

3 figures

Pine Forest fell from 632 to 499 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
2000632
2010487-145 (-23%)
2020499+12 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Pine Forest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,606 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 49 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 burning57
Arson/incendiarism49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Fireworks1
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
8 September 1992Arson/incendiarism15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Arson/incendiarism75 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Arson/incendiarism300 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 214
27 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 321
20 September 2005Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 238

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Pine Forest: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Beeco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
L O Block Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

15 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Forest in 15 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
July 2009Thunderstorm WindPine Forest1 killed, $3,000An 84 year old Pine Forest resident was killed at his residence on Hulett Street by a fallen tree limb. As the man arrived home at his residence and exited a vehicle, a tree limb as large as a car was blown out of a 60 foot tall pine tree and crushed both him and the vehicle.
March 2016FloodPine Forest$500,000The flood wave from the heavy rain event during the 9th and 10th moved across western sections of Orange County flooding around 10 homes.
June 2016FloodPine Forest$250,000Heavy rain during the end of May produced flash flooding across areas upstream of B. A. Steinhagen Lake. Even one small earthen dam failed near Colmesneil. This flood wave traveled down the Neches flooding areas south of Dam B including several homes and camps in the Lakeview Community in Northwest Orange County.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPine Forest$10,000An animal refuge building collapsed from the high winds.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindPine Forest$6,000Several large trees were downed along with numerous branches and a carport was damaged in the Lakeview area.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindPine Forest$2,000A large tree was downed across highway 1131 north of Vidor.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindPine Forest-Large tree limbs downed onto a home and carport.
March 2018Flash FloodPine Forest-Street flooding resulted from several inches of heavy rain. Some roads became impassable for a period.
March 2016HailPine Forest-A report of nickel to quarter size hail was received north of Vidor.
July 2014Flash FloodPine Forest-Heavy rain began during the 17th across Orange and Jefferson Counties with 1 to 5 inches fall before sunrise of the 18th, however during the 18th an additional 4 to 8 inches of rain fell. This large amount of rainfall lead to numerous streets and roadways being flooded including the feeder roads along Interstate 10 between Beaumont and Orange.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindPine Forest-A spotter reported an estimated wind gust of 60 MPH north of Vidor with a passing storm.
June 2011HailPine Forest-no account filed
June 2011HailPine Forest-no account filed
June 2004HailPine Forest-no account filed
October 2003HailPine Forest-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Echo Forest1.1 miles15
Lakeview Estates2.5 miles15
Vidor3.6 miles15
Maple Crest Acres4.2 miles13
Lawson Crossing4.5 miles15
Lakewood4.7 miles13
Lakeview4.8 miles15
Doty4.9 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 Pine ForestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982239The 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 1344043. 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.