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.
Population over time
2 figuresSealy 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6,019 | |
| 2020 | 6,839 | +820 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Sealy quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Sealy quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
60 since 1998Regional 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 burning | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 30 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 1 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 9 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH AND GRASS FIRE |
| 9 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 7 August 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 3 August 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 700 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chew Mine | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
29 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sealy | $1,000,000 | Severe 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sealy | $80,000 | Minor damage to mobile homes. Double-wide trailer pulled apart. |
| January 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Sealy | $50,000 | Sheriff reported 50 to 60 mph wind and glass doors of business's blown out. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Sealy | $30,000 | Hail between Sealy and San Felipe. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Sealy | $30,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Sealy | $25,000 | Many roads in and around Sealy flooded and impassable. |
| April 1996 | Hail | Sealy | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sealy | $10,000 | Power lines down. |
| May 1997 | Flash Flood | Sealy | $10,000 | 3 feet of water at intersection of HWY 36 & HWY 90 |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sealy | $8,000 | Power lines and trees down in Sealy. |
| April 2004 | Flash Flood | Sealy | $5,000 | Numerous FM roads and I-10 flooded in and around Sealy. |
| March 2002 | Hail | Sealy | $5,000 | Dime size hail on Interstate 10 at Chew Road near Sealy, reported by Sheriff. |
| October 2002 | Hail | Sealy | $5,000 | Dime size hail in Sealy (I-10 and Hwy 36). |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sealy | $5,000 | Trees blown down, tin roof blown off building. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sealy | $5,000 | Trees down on FM 3013 |
| March 2003 | Hail | Sealy | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Sealy | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sealy | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Sealy | $3,000 | Ping pong sized hail was reported by a National Weather Service employee just north of Sealy. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sealy | $2,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds downed a tree on Columbus Road to the west of Sealy. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Sealy | $2,000 | no account filed |
| October 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sealy | - | Law enforcement reported debris and downed trees in the city of Sealy along Fowlkes St. as well as in Briarwood Estates. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sealy | - | Thunderstorm winds downed large tree limbs onto a home. Several wood panel fences were also down. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sealy | - | Wind gust was estimated just west of San Felipe. |
| September 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Sealy | - | The family of a National Weather Service employee saw a brief funnel cloud that extended half way to the ground. |
| April 2007 | Flash Flood | Sealy | - | Roads flooded around the area. |
| February 1993 | Hail | Sealy | - | The Austin County Sheriff's Office reported 0.75-inch hail in Sealy. |
| September 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Sealy | - | no account filed |
| January 1995 | Hail | Sealy | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Felipe | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Frydek | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Macedonia | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Rexville | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| South Frydek | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Peters | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Brazos Country | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Millheim | 7.9 miles | 11 |
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 Sealy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q980553 | 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 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.




