Silsbee, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Silsbee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77656. The Survey maps it on the Silsbee quadrangle. 6,935 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 82 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSilsbee grew from 6,611 to 6,935 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 | 6,611 | |
| 2020 | 6,935 | +324 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Silsbee quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Silsbee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
110 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Silsbee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,556 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 29 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 51 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 190 |
| 4 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 440 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 652 |
| 22 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 57 |
| 2 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 827 |
| 2 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 232 |
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 Silsbee: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barry & Barry Pit Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
31 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silsbee in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 20 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $250,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Silsbee | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $25,000 | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $10,000 | no account filed |
| January 1998 | Flash Flood | Silsbee | $10,000 | no account filed |
| December 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $10,000 | no account filed |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $5,000 | Trees were downed onto a home and onto power lines around Silsbee. |
| October 2006 | Flash Flood | Silsbee | $5,000 | Many roads near Silsbee were closed due to high waters. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $5,000 | Damaging winds in Kountze. Numerous trees knocked over at Silsbee. |
| November 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $5,000 | no account filed |
| December 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $3,000 | KBMT-TV reported a tree was blown down onto a house and trapped people inside on Highway 96 north of Silsbee. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $2,000 | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts knocked down a tree into phone and internet cables. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $2,000 | A large tree was downed on the northwest side of Silsbee. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | $2,000 | no account filed |
| October 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Silsbee | $1,000 | A tornado began just west of the Neches River then moved into Jasper County. Damage was done to a few trees before moving across the river. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | - | A tree was downed onto powerlines on Old Evadale road in Silsbee. |
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Silsbee | - | The emergency manager of Hardin County reported water over SH 327 in Silsbee. Mill Creek also exceeded bankfull. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | - | Trees were downed in and north of Silsbee. |
| March 2012 | Heavy Rain | Silsbee | - | Heavy rain across the county produced minor flooding on some roadways around Silsbee and Kountze. |
| December 2012 | Hail | Silsbee | - | A report was received of nickel sized hail from a passing strong storm northeast of Silsbee. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silsbee | - | Numerous power lines blown down. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Silsbee | - | no account filed |
| December 2005 | Hail | Silsbee | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Silsbee | - | no account filed |
| January 1998 | Hail | Silsbee | - | 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.
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 Silsbee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q954162 | 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 1347123. 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.





