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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.

Silsbee within Hardin County

Population over time

2 figures

Silsbee 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.

YearPeople Change
20106,611
20206,935+324 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

110 since 1992

Regional 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 burning51
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural10
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
6 September 2005Debris and open burning16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 190
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism440 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 652
22 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 57
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 827
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 232

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barry & Barry Pit DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

31 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1998Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$250,000no account filed
May 1999Tornado (F0)Silsbee$50,000no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$25,000no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$10,000no account filed
January 1998Flash FloodSilsbee$10,000no account filed
December 1997Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$10,000no account filed
February 2026Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$5,000Trees were downed onto a home and onto power lines around Silsbee.
October 2006Flash FloodSilsbee$5,000Many roads near Silsbee were closed due to high waters.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$5,000Damaging winds in Kountze. Numerous trees knocked over at Silsbee.
November 2003Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$5,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$5,000no account filed
December 2001Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$5,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$5,000no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$3,000KBMT-TV reported a tree was blown down onto a house and trapped people inside on Highway 96 north of Silsbee.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$2,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts knocked down a tree into phone and internet cables.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$2,000A large tree was downed on the northwest side of Silsbee.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$2,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$2,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$2,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSilsbee$2,000no account filed
October 2018Tornado (EF0)Silsbee$1,000A 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 2024Thunderstorm WindSilsbee-A tree was downed onto powerlines on Old Evadale road in Silsbee.
May 2024Flash FloodSilsbee-The emergency manager of Hardin County reported water over SH 327 in Silsbee. Mill Creek also exceeded bankfull.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSilsbee-Trees were downed in and north of Silsbee.
March 2012Heavy RainSilsbee-Heavy rain across the county produced minor flooding on some roadways around Silsbee and Kountze.
December 2012HailSilsbee-A report was received of nickel sized hail from a passing strong storm northeast of Silsbee.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindSilsbee-Numerous power lines blown down.
May 2008HailSilsbee-no account filed
December 2005HailSilsbee-no account filed
May 2000HailSilsbee-no account filed
January 1998HailSilsbee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Lillard3.2 miles12
Seth3.5 miles13
Fresenius3.6 miles12
Gore Landing5.3 miles13
Fletcher5.8 miles13
Lumberton5.9 miles13
Nona6.1 miles13
Kountze7.3 miles13

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 SilsbeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q954162The 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.