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.
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
- Yegua Creek Bridge, Spanning Tommelson Creek at Cedar Hill Road (County Route 24), Brenhamfederal building survey
Population over time
2 figuresSomerville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,376 | |
| 2020 | 1,312 | -64 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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 Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Somerville quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Somerville quadrangle1:24000
- 1971 USGS Somerville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Brenham quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
203 since 2000Regional 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 burning | 83 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 66 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BIG CREEK PK |
| 4 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CLYDE SMITH |
| 4 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OVERLOOK PARK |
| 4 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CO RD 420 STRUCTURE/GRASS FIRE |
| 27 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CYE WOODS JR. |
| 24 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH PILES BURNING |
| 22 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2073 LAKEVIEW DR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2004 | Hail | Somerville | $25,000 | Quarter-size hail in the town of Somerville. |
| April 1999 | Hail | Somerville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Somerville | $20,000 | Trees blown down; one on a house. |
| January 1998 | Hail | Somerville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| January 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Somerville | $6,000 | Trees were downed and the Somerville area was left without power. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Somerville | $5,000 | Golf ball size hail reported in Somerville. |
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Somerville | $5,000 | High water on HWY 36 |
| April 2015 | Hail | Somerville | $3,000 | Golf ball sized hail was reported on CR 431 near Somerville. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Somerville | $1,000 | Hail occurred in Somerville. |
| December 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Somerville | $1,000 | Tree down and partially blocking Thornberry Road along the east shore of Lake Somerville. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Somerville | - | 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Somerville | - | Trees were downed in the Somerville area. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Somerville | - | Thunderstorm winds downed four inch diameter tree limbs. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Somerville | - | Quarter size hail occurred in Somerville. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyons | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Big Creek | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Scofield | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Center Line | 5.4 miles | 8 | |
| Beaver Creek | 7.3 miles | 8 | |
| Frenstat | 7.5 miles | 8 | |
| Merle | 7.9 miles | 9 | |
| Birch | 8.3 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 Somerville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q966480 | 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 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.




