Snook, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Old River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77878. It stands on Lewis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Snook quadrangle. 506 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.
On record in Snook
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Ethiopian Star Lodge #308listed 2025
Population over time
2 figuresSnook fell from 511 to 506 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 | 511 | |
| 2020 | 506 | -5 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1914 USGS Gay Hill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Snook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
157 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Snook between 1998 and 2020, burning about 474 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 | 95 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 9 September 2019 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SNOOK MUTUAL AID |
| 9 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1872 |
| 7 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 201 |
| 6 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SNOOK MUTUAL AID |
| 5 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BURN BAN VIOLATION |
| 5 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1962 |
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 10231 FM.1361 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snook in 21 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 3 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2012 | Tornado (EF2) | Snook | $500,000 | The tornado touched down to the northeast of Snook and produced major damage to both a private business and a FedEx shipping facility. A small metal outbuilding was destroyed at the private business while a larger metal outbuilding sustained significant damage. The FedEx facility suffered some minor damage while a few tractor trailers were thrown across the road into a pecan tree orchard. |
| February 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $250,000 | Strong straight line winds destroyed a large barn and damaged numerous trees, in addition to briefly lifting the roof off of a home before setting it back down. These straight line winds were associated with the rear flank downdraft of a tornadic supercell. |
| February 2012 | Tornado (EF1) | Snook | $150,000 | A tornado touched down in the southeastern portion of Snook and damaged numerous homes and uprooted several trees and damaged numerous others. Additional damage to the south of the tornado track was due to the rear flank downdraft of the storm. |
| March 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Snook | $100,000 | There was an EF0 tornado in Snook that caused damage to a garage door and also some roof damage to a couple homes and to an apartment complex. |
| April 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Snook | $75,000 | Tornado sheared the roof off one vacant mobile home on FM 60. Another mobile home on CR 269 and a few metal sheds also sustained some roof damage and trees were snapped. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $15,000 | Numerous trees were reported down across the county. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $15,000 | Power lines down on FM 50 and FM 60. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $12,000 | Tree down on car off of FM 2039 near Tunis. Portions of CR 128 were closed due to a blown over tree blocking the road. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $8,000 | Porch destroyed on Highway 60. |
| March 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $7,000 | A carport cover and hay ring were blown over. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $5,000 | Trees and powerlines blown down. |
| March 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $4,000 | Telephone pole downed. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | $3,000 | Powerlines down. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Snook | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Snook | $1,900 | Quarter sized hail was reported by law enforcement. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | - | Trees downed near Snook. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | - | Trees were downed in Snook. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | - | A home portable weather station recorded a measured wind gust of 69 mph as a severe thunderstorm moved through Snook. |
| March 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Snook | - | A funnel cloud was reported in Snook. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snook | - | Trees down on FM 2039 one mile north of Highway 60. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Snook | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merle | 2.7 miles | 9 | |
| Chances Store | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Tunis | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Wilcox | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Beaver Creek | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Center Line | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| Parker | 8.6 miles | 8 | |
| Lyons | 8.8 miles | 8 |
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 Snook | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q977497 | 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 1368567. 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.
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.



