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Splendora, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Southeast Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77372. It stands on Gulley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Splendora quadrangle. 1,683 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 125 feet above sea level.

Splendora within Montgomery County

Population over time

3 figures

Splendora grew from 1,275 to 1,683 between 2000 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
20001,275
20101,615+340 (+27%)
20201,683+68 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Splendora between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,047 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 18 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 burning72
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2000Natural30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 375
29 September 1994Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 160
26 September 2002Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 161
23 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAMBRIDGE
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Splendora in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 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
December 2012Thunderstorm WindSplendora$20,000A tree downed onto a residential home caused roof and window damage.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindSplendora$5,000Trees were downed along Duke Road near FM 2090.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSplendora$5,000A severe thunderstorm downed some trees and power lines. One tree fell on a car.
March 2001HailSplendora$5,000no account filed
January 2020Thunderstorm WindSplendora$4,000There was some wind damage to a home on Shakey Hollow.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindSplendora$3,000Trees blown down.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindSplendora$2,000An emergency manager reported downed power lines, several downed trees and a tin roof wrapped in debris in Splendora near the intersection of Morgan Dr and Morton Dr.
March 2026HailSplendora-An NWS employee shared a photo of 1 inch hail, around the size of a quarter. They noted that the hail lasted around 3 to 5 minutes in duration.
September 2019Flash FloodSplendora-There was significant street flooding in the Splendora area. Floodwaters became deep enough to submerge many roads including FM 2090 and sections of Highway 59 while completely inundating local gas station pumps.
September 2019Flash FloodSplendora-Floodwater was entering homes and requiring water rescues in the Splendora area.
October 1994HailSplendora-A severe thunderstorm in eastern Montgomery County produced 0.75-inch hail in Splendora.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Forest Estates1.1 miles13
Lake Spendora1.2 miles13
Hill and Dale Terrace1.4 miles13
Deerbrook1.5 miles13
Midline1.9 miles13
Patton Village2.8 miles13
Roman Forest3.7 miles13
Woodbranch3.9 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 SplendoraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982232The 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 1347662. 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.