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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.

Stowell within Chambers County

Population over time

2 figures

Stowell 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,756
20201,743-13 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

45 since 1998

Regional 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 burning29
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
20 September 2009Debris and open burning120 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHELLHAMMER RD FIRE
2 September 2009Debris and open burning52 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 219
19 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresMcFaddin National Wildlife RefugeWF SPINDLETOP BEND
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGALVESTON BAY PROCESSING GRASS FIRE
22 July 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 650
16 July 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceENGLIN RD BRUSH FIRE
15 July 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 July 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceENGLIN RD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007Flash FloodStowell$40,000Water entered a Post Office building.
June 2017Flash FloodStowell$3,000Highway 124 became impassable and one car was flooded.
November 1997HailStowell$3,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindStowell-This wind gust was measured at East Chambers Elementary School.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Figridge1.9 miles12
Winnie2.1 miles12
Sea Breeze4.9 miles10
Monroe City10.7 miles10
Hankamer13.7 miles12
Double Bayou14.7 miles10
Turtle Bayou15.3 miles12
Anahuac15.9 miles12

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 StowellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982004The 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.