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.
Population over time
2 figuresWaller 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,326 | |
| 2020 | 2,682 | +356 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1920 USGS Waller quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Waller quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Conroe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
97 since 1999Regional 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/undetermined | 46 |
| Debris and open burning | 41 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 30 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRES |
| 25 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 24 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 15 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAY FIRE |
| 9 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 8 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 8 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HEAVY SMOKE IN AREA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hockley Plant | Salt | Producer |
Storms near this place
24 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Flash Flood | Waller | $300,000 | Several parts of FM 362 impassable due to high water. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Waller | $150,000 | A 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 2006 | Flash Flood | Waller | $33,000 | Heavy rain caused some street flooding and flooded a few homes. |
| April 1997 | Hail | Waller | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Waller | $10,000 | There was a high water rescue reported at Field Store Road and Waller-Spring Creek Road. |
| April 1997 | Hail | Waller | $10,000 | no account filed |
| January 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waller | $9,000 | There was tree and fence damage off of Murrell Road. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Waller | $7,000 | Hen egg sized hail was reported in Waller. |
| April 1997 | Hail | Waller | $7,000 | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Flash Flood | Waller | $5,000 | Locallized street flooding. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Waller | $5,000 | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Hail | Waller | $5,000 | no account filed |
| January 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waller | $4,000 | Trees and a few large limbs were downed. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waller | $3,000 | Trees down along C Street. |
| November 1998 | Flash Flood | Waller | $1,000 | Minor street flooding. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Waller | - | A member of the public reported ping-pong size hail near Turlington elementary school. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Waller | - | Nickel sized hail was reported near Magnolia. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waller | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a tree along FM 1488 near Oak Hollow Blvd. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waller | - | Trees and power lines were downed near Oak Hollow Boulevard and FM 1488. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Waller | - | There was flooding that lead to road closures in and around the intersection of FM 1488 and Hegar Road. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waller | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees throughout the eastern part of the county. |
| September 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Waller | - | Funnel cloud 2 miles south of Waller or 5 miles west of Hockley moving northeast. |
| September 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Waller | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Waller | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie View | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Pine Island | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Fields Store | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Hegar | 6.7 miles | 16 | |
| Hempstead | 8.5 miles | 10 | |
| Rolling Hills | 9.1 miles | 8 | |
| Monaville | 9.4 miles | 11 | |
| Lewisville | 10.0 miles | 10 |
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 Waller | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q977357 | 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 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.





