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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.

Snook within Burleson County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Snook 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.

YearPeople Change
2010511
2020506-5 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

157 since 1998

Regional 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 burning95
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use18
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Smoking1

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
9 September 2019Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 September 2019Natural1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSNOOK MUTUAL AID
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1872
7 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 201
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSNOOK MUTUAL AID
5 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURN BAN VIOLATION
5 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1962
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10231 FM.1361

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burleson County

Storms near this place

21 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2012Tornado (EF2)Snook$500,000The 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 2012Thunderstorm WindSnook$250,000Strong 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 2012Tornado (EF1)Snook$150,000A 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 2022Tornado (EF0)Snook$100,000There 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 2007Tornado (EF0)Snook$75,000Tornado 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 2008Thunderstorm WindSnook$15,000Numerous trees were reported down across the county.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindSnook$15,000Power lines down on FM 50 and FM 60.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindSnook$12,000Tree 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 2003Thunderstorm WindSnook$8,000Porch destroyed on Highway 60.
March 2018Thunderstorm WindSnook$7,000A carport cover and hay ring were blown over.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSnook$5,000Trees and powerlines blown down.
March 2005Thunderstorm WindSnook$4,000Telephone pole downed.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindSnook$3,000Powerlines down.
March 2005HailSnook$3,000no account filed
May 2020HailSnook$1,900Quarter sized hail was reported by law enforcement.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindSnook-Trees downed near Snook.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindSnook-Trees were downed in Snook.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSnook-A home portable weather station recorded a measured wind gust of 69 mph as a severe thunderstorm moved through Snook.
March 2009Funnel CloudSnook-A funnel cloud was reported in Snook.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindSnook-Trees down on FM 2039 one mile north of Highway 60.
July 2013HailSnook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Burleson 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
Merle2.7 miles9
Chances Store4.5 miles11
Tunis5.1 miles8
Wilcox5.4 miles9
Beaver Creek5.8 miles8
Center Line5.9 miles8
Parker8.6 miles8
Lyons8.8 miles8

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 SnookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977497The 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.