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Seadrift, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Seadrift census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77983. The Survey maps it on the Seadrift quadrangle. 995 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Seadrift within Calhoun County

Population over time

2 figures

Seadrift fell from 1,364 to 995 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
20101,364
2020995-369 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

40 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Seadrift between 2007 and 2020, burning about 905 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHAFER
7 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWASHINGTON
29 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCEMENTARY COMMAND
6 June 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOOP COMMAND
20 June 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 June 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Seadrift: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Lone Star IndustriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Trinity No 1 DredgeStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seadrift in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
March 2018Tornado (EF1)Seadrift$1,000,000An EF-1 tornado touched down in north part of the community of Seadrift on Oakland Avenue and traveled to the east-northeast to North 3rd Street. The tornado flipped several mobile homes and completely destroyed one mobile home near the intersection of West Denver Avenue and North 4th Street. A truck and boat were capsized. Several homes experienced roof damage and several outbuildings were damaged or destroyed. Eight homes were destroyed with one home sustaining major damage and two homes receiving minor damage. Estimated peak wind from the tornado was 110 mph.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindSeadrift$150,000NWS storm survey determined straight-line winds up to 90 mph struck a mobile home park on Lane Road east of Seadrift. One mobile home was flipped and destroyed. Three recreational vehicles were lifted and flipped on their sides. Four other RVs were blown off their blocks. There was damage to a bait shop also.
January 2011Thunderstorm WindSeadrift$20,000A large light pole was snapped at a baseball field. An awning was blown off of a business and into boats at the marina.
August 2017Tornado (EF0)Seadrift$10,000A brief tornado touched down around 3 miles east-northeast of Seadrift. The tornado destroyed a shed and a carport.
April 2012HailSeadrift$10,000Nickel to quarter sized hail was reported in Seadrift.
April 2012HailSeadrift$5,000Quarter sized hail reported at the Bayside Express Gas Station in Seadrift.
February 1994Thunderstorm WindSeadrift$5,000Several large trees were uprooted just east of Seadrift by strong winds from a thunderstorm. Residents in and near Seadrift reported large limbs knocked off trees as well.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindNorth Seadrift$2,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSeadrift$750A huge tree uprooted and 3 windows broken at a residence.
March 2018Thunderstorm WindSeadrift-TCOON mesonet station at Seadrift Harbor measured a gust to 60 mph.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindSeadrift-RAWS site on Matagorda Island recorded a 61 mph wind gust.
September 2012Funnel CloudNorth Seadrift-A funnel cloud was reported near the intersection of Highway 35 and Highway 185 near Green Lake.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSeadrift-The wind gusts was measured by Matagorda RAWS site.
November 2006HailSeadrift-Nickle to quarter sized hail was reported in Seadrift.|
January 1998HailSeadrift-Spotter report of quarter sized hail.
April 1993HailSeadrift-Nickel-size hail was reported East of Seadrift, by the public.
April 2004HailSeadrift-no account filed
September 1998Flash FloodSeadrift-no account filed
February 1998HailSeadrift-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Long Mott5.3 miles8
North Seadrift7.2 miles8
Green Lake8.9 miles8
Alamo Beach13.2 miles10
Heyser13.4 miles8
Magnolia Beach13.5 miles10
Indianola13.7 miles9
Clark Station13.9 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 SeadriftAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981267The 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 1346842. 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.