The Woodlands, 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 77381. The Survey maps it on the Tamina quadrangle. 114,436 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 164 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresThe Woodlands grew from 93,847 to 114,436 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 | 93,847 | |
| 2020 | 114,436 | +20,589 (+22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Tamina quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Conroe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
192 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of The Woodlands between 1992 and 2020, burning about 588 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 13 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 | 89 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 62 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | RAYFORD RIDGE |
| 6 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 77 acres | Livingston Area | TAMINA FIRE |
| 30 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
34 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names The Woodlands in 34 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 14 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 6 funnel cloud, 2 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | The Woodlands | $50,000 | Three large oak trees were uprooted and landed on homes. One tree cut a home in half. Other tree limbs were broken and wind damage was observed along a one half mile stretch of a neighborhood. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | The Woodlands | $50,000 | Roof blown off small business. |
| October 1993 | Hail | The Woodlands | $50,000 | The Woodlands Fire Department reported golf ball-size hail and heavy rain at the fire station. |
| May 2000 | Hail | The Woodlands | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | The Woodlands | $45,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees upon homes and vehicles. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | The Woodlands | $45,000 | Car and home damaged and trees down several miles northeast of The Woodlands Mall (3 miles northeast of Chateau Woods). |
| November 2004 | Hail | The Woodlands | $30,000 | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Flash Flood | The Woodlands | $15,000 | Widespread street flooding. |
| April 2004 | Hail | The Woodlands | $15,000 | Penny-size hail in The Woodlands. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | The Woodlands | $15,000 | Trees and power lines down. |
| November 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | The Woodlands | $15,000 | Trees down. |
| January 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | The Woodlands | $8,000 | A tree fell onto a home on East Oak Hill Drive. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | The Woodlands | $8,000 | Oak tree blown down on home in the Harper's Landing Subdivision causing significant roof damage. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | The Woodlands | $8,000 | Trees down. |
| March 2005 | Hail | The Woodlands | $7,000 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | The Woodlands | $5,000 | Large tree limbs were downed near the intersection of Interstate 45 and Rayford/Sawdust road. Pea sized hail was also reported. |
| December 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | The Woodlands | $5,000 | Trees blown down. |
| August 2001 | Hail | The Woodlands | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | The Woodlands | $4,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | The Woodlands | $3,000 | Penny size hail. |
| July 2012 | Lightning | The Woodlands | $1,000 | A building fire was caused by a lightning strike at 26 Sawmill Grove Place in the Woodlands. Time estimation via the radar and lightning plot show the strike could've occurred any time between 2-305 pm CST. |
| July 2012 | Lightning | The Woodlands | $1,000 | A detached garage was struck by lightning and destroyed by a fire at 19 West Willowood Court in the Woodlands. Time estimation by radar and lightning plot indicate the strike could've happened any time between 2-305 pm CST. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | The Woodlands | - | Some trees were bent and downed in The Woodlands area. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | The Woodlands | - | Trees were blown down at the corner of Woodlands Parkway and Panther Creek. |
| June 2008 | Funnel Cloud | The Woodlands | - | A funnel cloud was sighted near the Woodlands. |
| May 2007 | Hail | The Woodlands | - | Hail reported on Lake Woodlands Drive. |
| May 2007 | Hail | The Woodlands | - | Hail reported near Interstate 45. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | The Woodlands | - | Wind gust reported between The Woodlands and Spring. |
| August 2006 | Funnel Cloud | The Woodlands | - | Two funnel clouds sighted. |
| May 2004 | Funnel Cloud | The Woodlands | - | Funnel cloud at Research Forest. |
| March 2001 | Funnel Cloud | The Woodlands | - | Funnel cloud at Woodlands Parkway and Kuykendahl Road. |
| June 2001 | Funnel Cloud | The Woodlands | - | Numerous reports of funnel clouds in The Woodlands area. |
| July 2007 | Funnel Cloud | The Woodlands | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | The Woodlands | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shenandoah | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Oak Ridge North | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Tamina | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Johnson | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Chateau Woods | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Rayford | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Spring Hills | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Sleepy Hollow | 4.6 miles | 13 |
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 The Woodlands | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982421 | 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 1867568. 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.




