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Pine Island, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Prairie View-Waller census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77445. The Survey maps it on the Hempstead quadrangle. 1,077 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 197 feet above sea level.

Pine Island within Waller County

Population over time

3 figures

Pine Island grew from 849 to 1,077 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
2000849
2010988+139 (+16%)
20201,077+89 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Pine Island between 1992 and 2018, burning about 200 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 September 1992Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1992Debris and open burning17 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY FIRE
22 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
18 July 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE - GRASS
10 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waller County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pine Island: 1 producer. All of them 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
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

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
Hempstead3.5 miles10
Prairie View3.6 miles15
Lewisville4.1 miles10
Waller5.9 miles15
Saint Paul6.0 miles8
Second Corinth7.3 miles8
Fields Store7.4 miles11
Monaville7.4 miles11

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 IslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981904The 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 1388558. 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.