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Waller, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Prairie View-Waller census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77484. The Survey maps it on the Waller quadrangle. 2,682 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Waller within Waller County

Population over time

2 figures

Waller grew from 2,326 to 2,682 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
20102,326
20202,682+356 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

97 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Waller between 1999 and 2018, burning about 330 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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/undetermined46
Debris and open burning41
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRES
25 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
24 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
15 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY FIRE
9 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHEAVY SMOKE IN AREA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waller County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Waller: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Salt. 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
Hockley PlantSaltProducer

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waller in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 hail, 6 flash flood, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2012Flash FloodWaller$300,000Several parts of FM 362 impassable due to high water.
May 2024Tornado (EF1)Waller$150,000A large metal barn was destroyed. Trailers were rolled. Metal debris was strewn 1000 yards to the southeast. Trees were felled in multiple directions ranging from south to northwest.
October 2006Flash FloodWaller$33,000Heavy rain caused some street flooding and flooded a few homes.
April 1997HailWaller$15,000no account filed
May 2019Flash FloodWaller$10,000There was a high water rescue reported at Field Store Road and Waller-Spring Creek Road.
April 1997HailWaller$10,000no account filed
January 2020Thunderstorm WindWaller$9,000There was tree and fence damage off of Murrell Road.
April 2015HailWaller$7,000Hen egg sized hail was reported in Waller.
April 1997HailWaller$7,000no account filed
April 1997Flash FloodWaller$5,000Locallized street flooding.
June 1998HailWaller$5,000no account filed
October 1997HailWaller$5,000no account filed
January 2020Thunderstorm WindWaller$4,000Trees and a few large limbs were downed.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindWaller$3,000Trees down along C Street.
November 1998Flash FloodWaller$1,000Minor street flooding.
May 2025HailWaller-A member of the public reported ping-pong size hail near Turlington elementary school.
April 2020HailWaller-Nickel sized hail was reported near Magnolia.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindWaller-Thunderstorm winds downed a tree along FM 1488 near Oak Hollow Blvd.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindWaller-Trees and power lines were downed near Oak Hollow Boulevard and FM 1488.
June 2015Flash FloodWaller-There was flooding that lead to road closures in and around the intersection of FM 1488 and Hegar Road.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindWaller-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees throughout the eastern part of the county.
September 2003Funnel CloudWaller-Funnel cloud 2 miles south of Waller or 5 miles west of Hockley moving northeast.
September 2004Funnel CloudWaller-no account filed
May 1995HailWaller-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waller 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
Prairie View4.1 miles15
Pine Island5.9 miles10
Fields Store6.3 miles11
Hegar6.7 miles16
Hempstead8.5 miles10
Rolling Hills9.1 miles8
Monaville9.4 miles11
Lewisville10.0 miles10

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 WallerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977357The 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 1349400. 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.