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Sealy, Texas

11 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. The Survey maps it on the Sealy quadrangle. 6,839 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 200 feet above sea level.

Sealy within Austin County

Population over time

2 figures

Sealy grew from 6,019 to 6,839 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
20106,019
20206,839+820 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

60 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Sealy between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,088 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony1
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
30 September 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas 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
9 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 August 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use700 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE

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 Sealy: 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

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sealy in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 11 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 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 2017Thunderstorm WindSealy$1,000,000Severe thunderstorms moved rapidly across the Sealy area, and a very intense and wet microburst produced significant wind damage to trees, structures and utility poles. Wind gusts may have exceeded 80 to 100 mph. The most significant damage began along or just northwest of Interstate 10 a few miles west of Sealy and moved in an approximate two mile wide swath south of the Interstate toward Highway 36. Damage included an 18 wheeler truck blown over, car windows blown out and part of a roof blown off at Sealy High School.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindSealy$80,000Minor damage to mobile homes. Double-wide trailer pulled apart.
January 1995Tornado (F0)Sealy$50,000Sheriff reported 50 to 60 mph wind and glass doors of business's blown out.
June 2004HailSealy$30,000Hail between Sealy and San Felipe.
May 1999HailSealy$30,000no account filed
June 2004Flash FloodSealy$25,000Many roads in and around Sealy flooded and impassable.
April 1996HailSealy$20,000no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSealy$10,000Power lines down.
May 1997Flash FloodSealy$10,0003 feet of water at intersection of HWY 36 & HWY 90
March 2002Thunderstorm WindSealy$8,000Power lines and trees down in Sealy.
April 2004Flash FloodSealy$5,000Numerous FM roads and I-10 flooded in and around Sealy.
March 2002HailSealy$5,000Dime size hail on Interstate 10 at Chew Road near Sealy, reported by Sheriff.
October 2002HailSealy$5,000Dime size hail in Sealy (I-10 and Hwy 36).
February 1998Thunderstorm WindSealy$5,000Trees blown down, tin roof blown off building.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindSealy$5,000Trees down on FM 3013
March 2003HailSealy$5,000no account filed
March 2001HailSealy$5,000no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindSealy$5,000no account filed
April 2015HailSealy$3,000Ping pong sized hail was reported by a National Weather Service employee just north of Sealy.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSealy$2,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed a tree on Columbus Road to the west of Sealy.
April 2003HailSealy$2,000no account filed
October 2025Thunderstorm WindSealy-Law enforcement reported debris and downed trees in the city of Sealy along Fowlkes St. as well as in Briarwood Estates.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindSealy-Thunderstorm winds downed large tree limbs onto a home. Several wood panel fences were also down.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindSealy-Wind gust was estimated just west of San Felipe.
September 2014Funnel CloudSealy-The family of a National Weather Service employee saw a brief funnel cloud that extended half way to the ground.
April 2007Flash FloodSealy-Roads flooded around the area.
February 1993HailSealy-The Austin County Sheriff's Office reported 0.75-inch hail in Sealy.
September 2001Funnel CloudSealy-no account filed
January 1995HailSealy-no account filed

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
San Felipe3.1 miles13
Frydek4.1 miles13
Macedonia4.4 miles11
Rexville4.8 miles10
South Frydek5.4 miles11
Peters5.7 miles11
Brazos Country6.0 miles13
Millheim7.9 miles11

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 SealyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980553The 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 1346849. 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.