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.
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
L.C. Anderson Halllisted 1999
W.R. Banks Librarylisted 1999
Annie Laurie Evans Halllisted 1999
Veterninary Hospitallisted 1999- Hilliard Halllisted 1999
- G.R. Woolfolk Social and Political Science Buildinglisted 1999
Population over time
3 figuresPrairie 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 4,410 | |
| 2010 | 5,576 | +1,166 (+26%) |
| 2020 | 8,184 | +2,608 (+47%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1920 USGS Waller quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Waller quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Conroe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
63 since 1996Regional 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/undetermined | 33 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 24 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 15 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAY FIRE |
| 9 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 8 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HEAVY SMOKE IN AREA |
| 26 August 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 24 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 2 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie View | $1,000,000 | Trees 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie View | $15,000 | Trees down near Yogi Bear Park. |
| September 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie View | $5,000 | A severe thunderstorm damaged a metal shed roof and a fence. |
| October 1997 | Hail | Prairie View | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Prairie View | $3,000 | Penny size hail at intersection of Highway 290 and FM 362. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie View | $2,000 | Sheriffs reported trees down in Prairie View. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie View | $2,000 | Sheriff reported trees down in Prairie View. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie View | - | Social media reports indicated widespread tree damage from the derecho in the Prairie View area. |
| October 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie View | - | Some trees were downed near the Bowler Road and Kyle Drive intersection. |
| October 2021 | Flash Flood | Prairie 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 2019 | Hail | Prairie View | - | Quarter sized hail was reported. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Prairie 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie View | - | Trees were downed, mostly around the intersection of Mayer Road and FM 1488. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prairie View | - | A severe thunderstorm downed some trees in northern Waller County. |
| August 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Prairie View | - | Funnel cloud sighted at the FM 1488 and FM 362 intersection. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Island | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Fields Store | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Waller | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Hempstead | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| Rolling Hills | 5.4 miles | 8 | |
| Howth | 6.6 miles | 8 | |
| Lewisville | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| Saint Paul | 7.6 miles | 8 |
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 View | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q973057 | 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 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.





