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.
Population over time
3 figuresThrall 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 712 | |
| 2010 | 839 | +127 (+18%) |
| 2020 | 816 | -23 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1885 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
- 1887 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1964 USGS Thrall quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Taylor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
36 since 2006Regional 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 burning | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2008 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTUAL AID THRALL ON GRASS FIRE |
| 18 August 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SMALL GRASS FIRE IN WILLIAMSON CO. |
| 12 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 19 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM1036 FIRE |
| 19 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 July 2010 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROUND BAIL FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thrall | 2 hurt | A 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thrall | $20,000 | Western 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thrall | $10,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down power lines and trees on Lydia Ln. in Thrall. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Thrall | - | 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Thrall | - | Thunderstorms produced from 3 to 4 inches of rain over eastern Williamson County closing FM486, FM1063, and FM112 due to flash flooding. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noack | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Sandoval | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Wuthrich Hill | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Hoxie | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Hare | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Beyersville | 5.8 miles | 14 | |
| Waterloo | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Taylor | 6.1 miles | 15 |
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 Thrall | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981691 | 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 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.





