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Somerville, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Somerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77879. It stands on Sweet Water Creek. The Survey maps it on the Somerville quadrangle. 1,312 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Somerville within Burleson County

On record in Somerville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Somerville fell from 1,376 to 1,312 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
20101,376
20201,312-64 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

203 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Somerville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 662 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None 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 burning83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined66
Equipment and vehicle use20
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBIG CREEK PK
4 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLYDE SMITH
4 September 2011Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOVERLOOK PARK
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCO RD 420 STRUCTURE/GRASS FIRE
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCYE WOODS JR.
24 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH PILES BURNING
22 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2073 LAKEVIEW DR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burleson County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Somerville in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2004HailSomerville$25,000Quarter-size hail in the town of Somerville.
April 1999HailSomerville$25,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindSomerville$20,000Trees blown down; one on a house.
January 1998HailSomerville$10,000no account filed
January 2020Thunderstorm WindSomerville$6,000Trees were downed and the Somerville area was left without power.
April 2008HailSomerville$5,000Golf ball size hail reported in Somerville.
June 1997Flash FloodSomerville$5,000High water on HWY 36
April 2015HailSomerville$3,000Golf ball sized hail was reported on CR 431 near Somerville.
April 2008HailSomerville$1,000Hail occurred in Somerville.
December 2006Thunderstorm WindSomerville$1,000Tree down and partially blocking Thornberry Road along the east shore of Lake Somerville.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindSomerville-Broadcast media reported damage in Somerville around the school campus. One home sustained major damage from a fallen tree. One vehicle was damaged by a fallen tree. No injuries were reported. Wind gusts were estimated at 70 MPH.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSomerville-Trees were downed in the Somerville area.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSomerville-Thunderstorm winds downed four inch diameter tree limbs.
May 2011HailSomerville-Quarter size hail occurred in Somerville.

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
Lyons3.3 miles8
Big Creek3.6 miles10
Scofield4.7 miles10
Center Line5.4 miles8
Beaver Creek7.3 miles8
Frenstat7.5 miles8
Merle7.9 miles9
Birch8.3 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 SomervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q966480The 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 1347375. 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.