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Pleak, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rosenberg-Richmond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77469. It stands on Seabourne Creek. The Survey maps it on the Needville quadrangle. 971 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 85 feet above sea level.

Pleak within Fort Bend County

Population over time

2 figures

Pleak fell from 1,044 to 971 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
20101,044
2020971-73 (-7%)

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

49 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Pleak between 2006 and 2020, burning about 594 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
9 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEGAN DRIVE
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism400 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNEEDVILLE
28 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAND ROAD
26 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
15 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARTLEDGE ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pleak: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra Pure, 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
Big Creek MineSulfur, Halite, Limestone, Ultra PurePast Producer1922, 1925
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand

Every working recorded in Fort Bend County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleak in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
April 2006Tornado (F1)Pleak$50,000Tornado snapped trees off and significantly damaged Meyer Elementary School in Pleak.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPleak$15,000Several trees were downed and damage occurred to a storage building on J Meyer Road.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindPleak$12,000Strong winds collapsed a large barn while another smaller barn received damage.
March 2024HailPleak-A member of the public reported golf ball-sized hail in Pleak.

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
McHattie4.2 miles9
Fairchilds4.2 miles10
Rosenberg4.7 miles9
Beasley5.9 miles9
Bridlewood Estates6.0 miles11
Cumings6.2 miles9
Crabb6.2 miles11
Needville6.4 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 PleakAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2458940The 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 1378879. 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.