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Pointblank, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Point Blank census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77364. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stephen Creek quadrangle. 643 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 223 feet above sea level.

Pointblank within San Jacinto County

Population over time

3 figures

Pointblank grew from 559 to 643 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
2000559
2010688+129 (+23%)
2020643-45 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Pointblank between 1992 and 2017, burning about 865 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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 burning47
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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 2006Debris and open burning28 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 197
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 429
25 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 115

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Jacinto County

Storms near this place

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pointblank in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
December 2001Tornado (F2)Pointblank2 hurt, $2,500,000An F2 Tornado touched down at the Point Lookout West Estates. There were 2 minor injuries. 15 homes were destroyed, with 15 to 20 other homes receiving major damage. Trees and power lines were down. Reported by the Sheriff's office.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindPointblank$25,000Trees down
March 2001Thunderstorm WindPointblank$15,000Trees down between Point Blank and Coldspring.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindPointblank$15,000Dime sized hail also reported.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindPointblank$15,000Power lines down.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindPointblank$15,000Trees down along SH 156.
May 1999HailPointblank$10,000no account filed
April 1997HailPointblank$10,000no account filed
January 2016HailPointblank$7,000Golfball sized hail occurred at a gas station near the intersection of Highway 190 and Counts Road.
March 2018Thunderstorm WindPointblank$5,000There was damage to a home, and multiple trees and phone lines were downed near the intersection of FM 980 and Highway 190.
April 1997HailPointblank$5,000no account filed
August 2003HailPointblank$3,000Nickel size hail.
January 1998HailPointblank$3,000no account filed
May 2009Thunderstorm WindPointblank$1,000A downed tree was reported on FM 156.
March 2025HailPointblank-A member of the public reported 1 inch hail in Point Blank.
March 2025HailPointblank-A member of the public reported 1 inch hail near Point Blank.
May 2024Flash FloodPointblank-Social media video showed impassable roadways due to street flooding in the Holiday Village subdivision along Lake Livingston.
October 2021Flash FloodPointblank-Roadways within the Holiday Village Subdivision along Lake Livingston were impassable due to floodwaters.
May 2017HailPointblank-Golf ball sized hail was reported in Point Blank.
November 2012Thunderstorm WindPointblank-There were downed trees with one tree collapsing onto a power line that caused a fire.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindPointblank-Trees were blown down near FM 980.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindPointblank-Powerlines and transformers were blown down in Point Blank.
May 2010HailPointblank-There was golf ball sized hail reported on Highway 156 North in the town of Point Blank.
January 2007Flash FloodPointblank-Flooding along FM 190.
June 2004Funnel CloudPointblank-Funnel cloud sighted near the Holiday Village subdivision on the NW side of Lake Livingston.

Every storm recorded in San Jacinto 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
Darby Hill1.9 miles12
Snow Hill2.7 miles13
Stephen Creek4.0 miles13
Palmetto Park5.2 miles13
Waterwood5.2 miles12
Oakhurst5.5 miles13
Willow Springs5.6 miles13
Staley7.4 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 PointblankAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972644The 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 1380902. 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.