Plum Grove, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cleveland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77327. It stands on Cordy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Plum Grove quadrangle. 1,245 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 95 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresPlum Grove grew from 930 to 1,245 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 | 930 | |
| 2010 | 600 | -330 (-35%) |
| 2020 | 1,245 | +645 (+108%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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
- 1959 USGS Plum Grove quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Conroe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
217 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 217 fires within 5 miles of Plum Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,197 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 28 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 | 143 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LIBERTY 14:38 |
| 8 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | LIBERTY 19:50 |
| 4 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2000 | Natural | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 375 |
| 29 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 29 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 125 |
| 29 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 7.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4527 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plum Grove in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2003 | Flash Flood | Plum Grove | $225,000 | 6 to 7 homes flooded in Plum Grove with flooded roads in and around Hardin. |
| October 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Plum Grove | $30,000 | Tornado touchdown in Plum Grove on FM 1010. Mobile homes damaged and trees/powerlines down. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Plum Grove | $10,000 | Nickel-size hail reported. |
| March 2001 | Hail | Plum Grove | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2026 | Hail | Plum Grove | - | Photos of large hail taken by the public were shared with the NWS from the county emergency manager. Hail size was estimated around 1.5 inches based on the photos. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Plum Grove | - | Golf ball sized hail was observed. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Plum Grove | - | There was water over FM 1010 just north of the town of Plum Grove. |
| September 2008 | Flash Flood | Plum Grove | - | County Road 304 was flooded near Highway 321. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| East River | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Gladstell | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Williams | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Snuff Ridge | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Grace | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Carter Settlement | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Nimrod | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Bendetsen | 7.5 miles | 12 |
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 Plum Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q979241 | 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 1378892. 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.




