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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.

Thompsons within Fort Bend County

Population over time

2 figures

Thompsons 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.

YearPeople Change
2010246
2020156-90 (-37%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

3 since 2011

Regional 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
7 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
31 December 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGUBBELS ROAD
11 January 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1270 HWY 188

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fort Bend County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Sugarland Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1926
Thompson Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1925

Every working recorded in Fort Bend County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2006Thunderstorm WindThompsons$10,000Numerous trees and power lines down in the Sienna Plantation.
August 2007Funnel CloudThompsons-Funnel cloud sighted as thunderstorms began to develop.

Every storm recorded in Fort Bend 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
Trammels3.6 miles11
Booth4.1 miles11
Sienna Plantation4.2 miles10
Dewalt4.3 miles11
Oxford4.4 miles11
Duke5.3 miles13
Thunderbird West5.3 miles11
First Colony5.5 miles11

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 ThompsonsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973251The 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.