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Texas City, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Texas City-League City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77590. The Survey maps it on the Texas City quadrangle. 51,898 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Texas City within Galveston County

On record in Texas City

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Texas City grew from 45,099 to 51,898 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
201045,099
202051,898+6,799 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Texas City in 2011, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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 burning4

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 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3042 CEDAR
16 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service412 AVE D
12 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2605 CORBETT
2 June 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3800 FM 1765 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Galveston 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 Texas City: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Vanadium, Tin, Molybdenum, Magnesite, Sulfur. 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
(Facility) Amoco Texas RefinerySulfurPlant
Gulf Chemical and Metallureical CoVanadium, Tin, Molybdenum, MagnesiteProducer

Every working recorded in Galveston County

Storms near this place

40 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Texas City in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 11 funnel cloud, 7 hail, 5 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
June 1996LightningTexas City$2,000,000no account filed
May 2002Flash FloodTexas City$150,000Streets flooded with 2-3 feet of water, 50 homes and businesses flooded.
July 1999Tornado (F1)Texas City$100,000Tornado, which began as waterspout over Galveston Bay, tracked across northern part of Texas City. Tornado struck Chateau Jonon Apartments at 2100 blk. of 25th Ave. north (near Loop 197 and Goddard Park), tearing roof off one building and damaging roofs on several others. Widespread trees and power lines also reported down in Texas City.
August 2001Flash FloodTexas City$80,000Homes flooded on Edwards Street; high water on Palmer Highway.
December 2002Tornado (F1)Texas City$75,000Tornado touched down near the intersection of SH 348 and Loop 197 in Texas City. Several businesses were damaged at the initial touchdown. The tornado moved east northeast and eventually crossed the Texas City dike where numerous power poles were knocked down. The tornado continued past the dike and moved into Galveston Bay as a waterspout.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindTexas City$35,000Numerous trees down and a light pole down on a parked SUV.
March 2007LightningTexas City$30,000Lightning strike started a fire that caused moderate damage to a home.
August 2001Flash FloodTexas City$30,000Flooding on Amburn Road and on Ninth Avenue; high water at College of the Mainland.
June 1999Tornado (F0)Texas City$25,000Brief tornado touchdown on Texas Ave. in Texas City. Damage to a tin/metal structure reported.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindTexas City$20,000Trees down throughout the city. Gas station canopy at Logan & Palmer St. blown over.
May 2005HailTexas City$16,000no account filed
May 2005HailTexas City$15,000Quarter size hail.
May 2002HailTexas City$15,000no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindTexas City$11,000There was some roof damage to a Texas City business.
March 1997Flash FloodTexas City$10,000no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindTexas City$5,500Large tree limbs and some fencing were blown down.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindTexas City$5,000no account filed
November 1997HailTexas City$5,000no account filed
April 1996HailTexas City$5,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindTexas City$5,000no account filed
February 1998Thunderstorm WindTexas City$3,000Powerpole blown down.
May 1995HailTexas City$1,000Public call that reported three-quarters inch hail in Texas City.
May 1995HailTexas City$1,000Public call that reported 3/4 inch hail in Texas City.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindTexas City-Mesonet station XLEV Levee measured a 69 mph wind gust.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindTexas City-Wind gust occurred at the Brigantine Cay Court mesonet site.
May 2018Funnel CloudTexas City-A funnel cloud was sighted.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindTexas City-Thunderstorm winds caused minor structure damage. Winds rolled over an exposed, non-anchored mobile trailer off of Dike Drive.
September 2014Funnel CloudTexas City-A funnel cloud was sighted near Blocker Middle School.
June 2014Funnel CloudTexas City-A funnel cloud was sighted south of Texas City.
June 2011Funnel CloudTexas City-A funnel cloud was sighted over Texas City.
March 2008Funnel CloudTexas City-A funnel cloud was sighted in Texas City.
June 2007Funnel CloudTexas City-Funnel cloud reported over Texas City.
July 2007Flash FloodTexas City-Numerous reports of flooding through the towns of Texas City and La Marque.
July 1999WaterspoutTexas City-Large waterspout over western Galveston Bay near Texas City.
June 2003Funnel CloudTexas City-no account filed
March 2001Thunderstorm WindTexas City-no account filed
August 2001Funnel CloudTexas City-no account filed
August 2001Funnel CloudTexas City-no account filed
July 2001Funnel CloudTexas City-no account filed
September 2001Funnel CloudTexas City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Galveston 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
Heights1.5 miles15
Nadeau2.2 miles15
Texas City Junction3.1 miles15
La Marque3.8 miles15
Bayou Vista4.4 miles15
Texas City Terminal Junction5.0 miles15
Virginia Point5.4 miles15
Tiki Island6.0 miles15

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 Texas CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q912475The 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 1376420. 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.