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Thrall, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Taylor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76578. The Survey maps it on the Thrall quadrangle. 816 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 561 feet above sea level.

Thrall within Williamson County

Population over time

3 figures

Thrall grew from 712 to 816 between 2000 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
2000712
2010839+127 (+18%)
2020816-23 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

36 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Thrall between 2006 and 2020, burning about 517 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 burning14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
2 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2008Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID THRALL ON GRASS FIRE
18 August 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMALL GRASS FIRE IN WILLIAMSON CO.
12 August 2008Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use19 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM1036 FIRE
19 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 July 2010Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROUND BAIL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thrall in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
February 2017Thunderstorm WindThrall2 hurtA thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 115 mph that significantly damaged a metal building system, at least 10 homes, at least a dozen farm buildings, mobile homes, and RVs north of Thrall. A couple suffered minor injuries when their RV was blown over. Most of the damage was caused by 60 to 65 mph wind gusts.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindThrall$20,000Western Williamson County escaped the very large hail, reporting only small hail and moderate wind gusts. Hail grew to baseball-size in the eastern part of the county where high winds also knocked over trees near Thrall. Widespread crop damage was also reported with the storms.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindThrall$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down power lines and trees on Lydia Ln. in Thrall.
July 2007Flash FloodThrall-Thunderstorms produced a general 2 to 3 inch rain over much of Llano, Burnet, Blanco, and Williamson Counties. Flash flooding developed in the afternoon that closed FM112 and FM619 in Williamson County.
July 2007Flash FloodThrall-Thunderstorms produced from 3 to 4 inches of rain over eastern Williamson County closing FM486, FM1063, and FM112 due to flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Noack2.3 miles14
Sandoval3.4 miles14
Wuthrich Hill4.2 miles14
Hoxie5.1 miles14
Hare5.7 miles14
Beyersville5.8 miles14
Waterloo5.9 miles15
Taylor6.1 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 ThrallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981691The 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 1369876. 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.