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Prairie View, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Prairie View-Waller census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77446. The Survey maps it on the Waller quadrangle. 8,184 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 269 feet above sea level.

Prairie View within Waller County

On record in Prairie View

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

Population over time

3 figures

Prairie View grew from 4,410 to 8,184 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
20004,410
20105,576+1,166 (+26%)
20208,184+2,608 (+47%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

63 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Prairie View between 1996 and 2018, burning about 234 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
24 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
15 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY FIRE
9 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHEAVY SMOKE IN AREA
26 August 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
24 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waller County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prairie View in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPrairie View$1,000,000Trees were downed by strong winds in the Prairie View area as the derecho moved through. Damage totals include other wind damage across the county.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindPrairie View$15,000Trees down near Yogi Bear Park.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindPrairie View$5,000A severe thunderstorm damaged a metal shed roof and a fence.
October 1997HailPrairie View$5,000no account filed
June 2005HailPrairie View$3,000Penny size hail at intersection of Highway 290 and FM 362.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindPrairie View$2,000Sheriffs reported trees down in Prairie View.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindPrairie View$2,000Sheriff reported trees down in Prairie View.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPrairie View-Social media reports indicated widespread tree damage from the derecho in the Prairie View area.
October 2023Thunderstorm WindPrairie View-Some trees were downed near the Bowler Road and Kyle Drive intersection.
October 2021Flash FloodPrairie View-FM 1488 at Wyatt Chapel Rd was impassable due to floodwaters, with water heights reaching up to the guardrail on the side of the road.
May 2019HailPrairie View-Quarter sized hail was reported.
August 2017Flash FloodPrairie View-Multiple lanes of Highway 290 at the FM 2920 intersection near the town of Waller were closed due to flooding.||In the southern part of the county, sections of FM 3318 near the Brazos River flooded and became inaccessible. There was significant countywide home flooding along the various creeks/bayous and their tributaries.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindPrairie View-Trees were downed, mostly around the intersection of Mayer Road and FM 1488.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPrairie View-A severe thunderstorm downed some trees in northern Waller County.
August 2004Funnel CloudPrairie View-Funnel cloud sighted at the FM 1488 and FM 362 intersection.

Every storm recorded in Waller 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
Pine Island3.6 miles10
Fields Store3.9 miles11
Waller4.1 miles15
Hempstead4.8 miles10
Rolling Hills5.4 miles8
Howth6.6 miles8
Lewisville6.9 miles10
Saint Paul7.6 miles8

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 Prairie ViewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973057The 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 1344521. 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.