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Wallis, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Wallis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77485. The Survey maps it on the Wallis quadrangle. 1,292 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 128 feet above sea level.

Wallis within Austin County

On record in Wallis

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Wallis grew from 1,252 to 1,292 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
20101,252
20201,292+40 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Wallis between 1996 and 2018, burning about 114 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
18 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
17 February 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 November 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMA GRASS FIRE WITH WALLIS FD
17 November 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMA GRASS FIRE -W- WALLIS VFD
13 January 2009Debris and open burning100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09-0000014

Every fire recorded in Austin 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 Wallis: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel

Every working recorded in Austin County

Storms near this place

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallis in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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
August 2017Flash FloodWallis$100,000Numerous roads closed due to flooding including but not limited to FM109, FM 331, FM 2429, FM 1093 and SH 36. Moderate, yet record, flooding along the Brazos at San|Felipe caused several homes to flood along FM 1458. Inundation ranged from 4 to 7 feet of water. Minimal impacts were observed at Mill creek near Bellville. No impacts were observed from the minor flooding at the Brazos river near Hempstead.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindWallis$45,000Trees downed, barns and buildings damaged along Highway 36 between Wallis and Orchard.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindWallis$25,000Numerous cedar trees downed around home with a mobile trailer flipped over. Roof blown off a horse barn with minor damage to surrounding small structures off of Highway 60.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindWallis$10,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees and power lines from Brazoria southwestward to around 1 mile west of the San Bernard River.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindWallis$10,000Roof damage and trees blown down.
August 1996HailWallis$10,000no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindWallis$5,000The Texas Department of Safety reported metal outbuildings were blown over of FM 949 between Cat Spring and San Felipe.
May 1993HailWallis$5,000The Austin County Sheriff's Department relayed a public report of nickel-size hail in Wallis.
November 1995HailWallis$5,000no account filed
September 2011Thunderstorm WindWallis$3,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed numerous power lines south of Wallis which left most of the community without power.
February 1999HailWallis$3,000no account filed
February 2012Thunderstorm WindWallis$2,000Tree was downed on Birch Street due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2023Flash FloodWallis-Heavy rain resulted in street flooding in the Meadow Bend subdivision near FM518 in League City.
August 2021Funnel CloudWallis-A funnel cloud was sighted in the Offatts Bayou area near Galveston Island.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindWallis-Crops destroyed from Wallis to the Ft. Bend county line.

Every storm recorded in Austin 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
South Frydek7.0 miles11
Brazos Country8.5 miles13
Frydek8.5 miles13
Rexville10.2 miles10
Beard10.4 miles10
San Felipe11.3 miles13
Sealy11.4 miles11
Macedonia15.4 miles11

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 WallisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981741The 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 1376626. 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.