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Vanderbilt, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Vanderbilt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77991. The Survey maps it on the Lolita quadrangle. 409 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 39 feet above sea level.

Vanderbilt within Jackson County

Population over time

3 figures

Vanderbilt fell from 411 to 409 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
2000411
2010395-16 (-4%)
2020409+14 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Vanderbilt between 2011 and 2020, burning about 302 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 burning2
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
9 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution80 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 426 FIRE
12 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEL LOBO
21 February 2011Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 324
8 October 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 616
5 January 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceVANDERBUILT FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vanderbilt in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1997HailVanderbilt$10,000no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindVanderbilt$5,000A portion of the metal roof of the Trinity Community Center was peeled back due to strong winds.
April 2004Tornado (F0)Vanderbilt-Tornado sighted by trained spotter.
July 2003Funnel CloudVanderbilt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
La Salle3.5 miles9
Lolita4.1 miles9
Red Bluff6.6 miles9
La Ward8.3 miles8
El Toro9.8 miles10
Matilda10.0 miles10
Edna10.8 miles10
Weedhaven11.1 miles8

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 VanderbiltAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969563The 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 1370583. 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.