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San Felipe, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sealy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77474. It stands on Bullinger Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Felipe quadrangle. 691 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 154 feet above sea level.

San Felipe within Austin County

On record in San Felipe

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

San Felipe fell from 747 to 691 between 2010 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
2010747
2020691-56 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

38 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of San Felipe between 2009 and 2020, burning about 166 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURN BAN VIOLATION
30 September 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
1 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH AND GRASS FIRE
7 August 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
12 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 36 & GRUBBS RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Austin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of San Felipe: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chew MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Austin County

Storms near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Felipe in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSan Felipe1 killed, $2,000Severe thunderstorm winds toppled a large tree limb down onto a tent at Stephen F. Austin Park crushing a camper.
October 2013Flash FloodSan Felipe$20,000Heavy rains caused flash flooding in and around the Sealy area. Several roads throughout the area were impassable, including the intersection of Highway 36 and Highway 90. There was some water damage to the Sealy Intermediate and Sealy Junior High schools.
June 2004HailSan Felipe$20,000Hail along I-10 near the Austin-Waller County line.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSan Felipe$3,000Thunderstorm winds damaged some trees in the San Felipe area.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindSan Felipe$2,000Power lines were downed.
July 2011Funnel CloudSan Felipe-A funnel cloud was sighted near the intersection of Crosby Huffman Road and South Diamond Head Boulevard.

Every storm recorded in Austin 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
Frydek2.8 miles13
Sealy3.1 miles11
Brazos Country3.8 miles13
South Frydek4.4 miles11
Macedonia4.6 miles11
Peters6.5 miles11
Rexville7.5 miles10
Burleigh9.1 miles10

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 San FelipeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981206The 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 1346329. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.