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Spring, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Northwest Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77373. The Survey maps it on the Spring quadrangle. 62,559 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 121 feet above sea level.

Spring within Harris County

On record in Spring

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

Spring grew from 54,298 to 62,559 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
201054,298
202062,559+8,261 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

142 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Spring between 1993 and 2020, burning about 420 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined63
Debris and open burning40
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural5
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAYFORD RIDGE
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 855
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 834
28 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service27547 REBECCA FIELD
27 September 2011Natural2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 941
25 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 426
25 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRILEY FUZZELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Spring: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Houston Plant BauxiteAluminumPast Producer
Watson Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring in 35 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 4 funnel cloud, 4 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
June 2019LightningSpring1 killedFrom OSHA report man struck and killed by lightning in a new home construction area.
June 2006Flash FloodSpring$200,00040 vehicles were flooded per media helicopter shot of Spring.
May 2015Flash FloodSpring$100,000Heavy rains in and around the Houston area on already very saturated grounds caused significant flooding. Water was up to 1.50 feet deep in some areas resulting in numerous road closures. Locations from the Spring and Kingwood areas southward into Downtown Houston and the Jacinto areas, then southward and southwestward into the University of Houston, Gulfgate Mall and Bellaire areas received some of the heaviest rainfall with these storms. Vehicles were underwater around the underpass of Interstate 45 and Elgin. Some of the most notable rainfall rates were 2.28 inches in thirty minutes in the Sienna Plantation area and 3.38 inches in three hours near the intersection of Highway 59 and Jefferson.
May 2006HailSpring$75,000Ping pong ball size hail caused significant damage to vehicles.
May 2000HailSpring$50,000Golfball sized hail near I-45 and Spring Cypress and in Cy-Fair.
October 1994Thunderstorm WindSpring$50,000A storm survey indicated 40 to 60 homes with damage - a large number of shingles blown off roofs, windows broken and trees downed.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindSpring$25,000Numerous trees down, one car damaged.
January 2001Thunderstorm WindSpring$20,000Carport blown off in Spring. Roof and medical equipment damaged at commercial building in Edgebrook Landing.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSpring$15,000Trees downed in Spring.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindSpring$15,000Wind gusts of 70 to 80 mph at Beltway 8 and Louetta with trees down.
May 2000HailSpring$15,000Quarter sized hail at Beltway 8 and Louetta.
March 2001HailSpring$10,000Hail accumulated to a depth of three inches at Interstate 45 and FM 1960.
February 2003HailSpring$7,0003/4 inch hail lasted twenty minutes.
October 2007Flash FloodSpring$5,000Flooding caused numerous road closures north of Houston. Road closures were reported along FM 1960 and the Cypress Creek area.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindSpring$5,000Tree limb damage near Cypress Creek and Interstate 45.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindSpring$5,000Trees uprooted or snapped at their mid-section in the town of Spring.
March 2006HailSpring$5,000Penny size hail on the west side of the city.
April 1997HailSpring$5,000no account filed
May 2006HailSpring$3,000Penny size hail at the intersection of Airline and West Road.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindSpring$2,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed a tree that damaged a residential fence.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindSpring$2,000A tree with several large broken branches, along with a fence, were blown down.
November 2008HailSpring$1,000Penny size hail was observed at the Lexington subdivision in Spring.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSpring-A Trained storm spotter estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph in Spring.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindSpring-A social media video depicted a large uprooted tree laying over a fence.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindSpring-Trees were downed in the Lexington Woods subdivision.
July 2018Flash FloodSpring-Web cameras showed portions of Highway 288 South going under water. Two lanes on I-10 at the 610 Loop were flooded on the west side of Houston. Reports of high water and impassable roadways around NRG Stadium. An underpass at Washington Avenue and Katy Freeway was impassable due to flood waters with significant flooding reported at Highway 290 and Hollister Street. There was several inches of water in a church near Melrose Park, and there was water in three homes in Spring.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindSpring-A tree was downed in the Spring area.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindSpring-Large trees were downed by severe storm winds in the Spring area.
August 2014HailSpring-Hail up to quarter size fell in Spring.
May 2007HailSpring-Lemon, to near baseball-size hail, reported by the general public from just northeast of Spring into the southwestern area of The Woodlands.
June 2005Funnel CloudSpring-Two funnel clouds sighted.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindSpring-Trained spotter estimated a 52 knot wind gust with no damage at FM 1960 and I-45.
November 2004Funnel CloudSpring-Sighted between Spring and Intercontinental Airport.
July 1999Funnel CloudSpring-Funnel cloud at Steubner-Airline and FM 1960.
June 2001Funnel CloudSpring-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
Lexington Woods0.8 miles18
Spring Lakes1.0 miles18
Northgate Crossing1.5 miles18
Cypresswood Court2.2 miles18
Windsor Forest2.3 miles18
Timber Lane2.5 miles18
Northland Shopping Center2.7 miles18
Oaks of Devonshire2.7 miles18

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 SpringAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981346The 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 1347681. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.