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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.

Plum Grove within Liberty County

Population over time

3 figures

Plum 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.

YearPeople Change
2000930
2010600-330 (-35%)
20201,245+645 (+108%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

217 since 1992

Regional 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 burning143
Arson/incendiarism28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIBERTY 14:38
8 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIBERTY 19:50
4 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2000Natural30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 375
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
29 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 125
29 September 1994Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2015Debris and open burning7.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4527

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2003Flash FloodPlum Grove$225,0006 to 7 homes flooded in Plum Grove with flooded roads in and around Hardin.
October 1998Tornado (F0)Plum Grove$30,000Tornado touchdown in Plum Grove on FM 1010. Mobile homes damaged and trees/powerlines down.
April 2004HailPlum Grove$10,000Nickel-size hail reported.
March 2001HailPlum Grove$5,000no account filed
March 2026HailPlum 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 2024HailPlum Grove-Golf ball sized hail was observed.
June 2015Flash FloodPlum Grove-There was water over FM 1010 just north of the town of Plum Grove.
September 2008Flash FloodPlum Grove-County Road 304 was flooded near Highway 321.

Every storm recorded in Liberty 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
East River4.9 miles13
Gladstell4.9 miles12
Williams5.3 miles12
Snuff Ridge5.5 miles12
Grace5.7 miles12
Carter Settlement6.7 miles12
Nimrod6.9 miles12
Bendetsen7.5 miles12

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 GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979241The 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.