Stowell, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Winnie-Stowell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77665. The Survey maps it on the Stowell quadrangle. 1,743 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresStowell fell from 1,756 to 1,743 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 | 1,756 | |
| 2020 | 1,743 | -13 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1943 USGS Stowell quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Stowell quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Stowell quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
45 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Stowell between 1998 and 2013, burning about 1,492 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning | 29 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 120 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SHELLHAMMER RD FIRE |
| 2 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 52 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 219 |
| 19 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge | WF SPINDLETOP BEND |
| 30 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GALVESTON BAY PROCESSING GRASS FIRE |
| 22 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 650 |
| 16 July 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ENGLIN RD BRUSH FIRE |
| 15 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 July 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ENGLIN RD FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stowell in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Stowell | $40,000 | Water entered a Post Office building. |
| June 2017 | Flash Flood | Stowell | $3,000 | Highway 124 became impassable and one car was flooded. |
| November 1997 | Hail | Stowell | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stowell | - | This wind gust was measured at East Chambers Elementary School. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Figridge | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Winnie | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Sea Breeze | 4.9 miles | 10 | |
| Monroe City | 10.7 miles | 10 | |
| Hankamer | 13.7 miles | 12 | |
| Double Bayou | 14.7 miles | 10 | |
| Turtle Bayou | 15.3 miles | 12 | |
| Anahuac | 15.9 miles | 12 |
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 Stowell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982004 | 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 1347987. 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.






