Thompsons, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rosenberg-Richmond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77469. It stands on Snake Slough. The Survey maps it on the Thompsons quadrangle. 156 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 66 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresThompsons fell from 246 to 156 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 | 246 | |
| 2020 | 156 | -90 (-37%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Thompsons quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Thompsons between 2011 and 2019, burning about 26 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 February 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 31 December 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GUBBELS ROAD |
| 11 January 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1270 HWY 188 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Thompsons: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Halite, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| Sugarland Salt Dome | Halite | Occurrence | 1926 | |
| Thompson Salt Dome | Halite | Occurrence | 1925 |
Storms near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thompsons in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2007: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thompsons | $10,000 | Numerous trees and power lines down in the Sienna Plantation. |
| August 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Thompsons | - | Funnel cloud sighted as thunderstorms began to develop. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trammels | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Booth | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Sienna Plantation | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Dewalt | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Oxford | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Duke | 5.3 miles | 13 | |
| Thunderbird West | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| First Colony | 5.5 miles | 11 |
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 Thompsons | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q973251 | 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 1348510. 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.




