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.
Population over time
3 figuresPointblank 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 559 | |
| 2010 | 688 | +129 (+23%) |
| 2020 | 643 | -45 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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
- 1960 USGS Stephen Creek quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Stephen Creek quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
94 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 47 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2006 | Debris and open burning | 28 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 197 |
| 8 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 429 |
| 25 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 115 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2001 | Tornado (F2) | Pointblank | 2 hurt, $2,500,000 | An 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pointblank | $25,000 | Trees down |
| March 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pointblank | $15,000 | Trees down between Point Blank and Coldspring. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pointblank | $15,000 | Dime sized hail also reported. |
| November 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pointblank | $15,000 | Power lines down. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pointblank | $15,000 | Trees down along SH 156. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Pointblank | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Pointblank | $10,000 | no account filed |
| January 2016 | Hail | Pointblank | $7,000 | Golfball sized hail occurred at a gas station near the intersection of Highway 190 and Counts Road. |
| March 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pointblank | $5,000 | There was damage to a home, and multiple trees and phone lines were downed near the intersection of FM 980 and Highway 190. |
| April 1997 | Hail | Pointblank | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Pointblank | $3,000 | Nickel size hail. |
| January 1998 | Hail | Pointblank | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pointblank | $1,000 | A downed tree was reported on FM 156. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Pointblank | - | A member of the public reported 1 inch hail in Point Blank. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Pointblank | - | A member of the public reported 1 inch hail near Point Blank. |
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Pointblank | - | Social media video showed impassable roadways due to street flooding in the Holiday Village subdivision along Lake Livingston. |
| October 2021 | Flash Flood | Pointblank | - | Roadways within the Holiday Village Subdivision along Lake Livingston were impassable due to floodwaters. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Pointblank | - | Golf ball sized hail was reported in Point Blank. |
| November 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pointblank | - | There were downed trees with one tree collapsing onto a power line that caused a fire. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pointblank | - | Trees were blown down near FM 980. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pointblank | - | Powerlines and transformers were blown down in Point Blank. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Pointblank | - | There was golf ball sized hail reported on Highway 156 North in the town of Point Blank. |
| January 2007 | Flash Flood | Pointblank | - | Flooding along FM 190. |
| June 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Pointblank | - | Funnel cloud sighted near the Holiday Village subdivision on the NW side of Lake Livingston. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darby Hill | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Snow Hill | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Stephen Creek | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Palmetto Park | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Waterwood | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Oakhurst | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Willow Springs | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Staley | 7.4 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 Pointblank | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972644 | 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 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.





