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.
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
Church of the Guardian Angellisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresWallis 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,252 | |
| 2020 | 1,292 | +40 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Wallis quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Wallis quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 1996Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 17 February 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 November 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MA GRASS FIRE WITH WALLIS FD |
| 17 November 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MA GRASS FIRE -W- WALLIS VFD |
| 13 January 2009 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 09-0000014 |
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel |
Storms near this place
15 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Wallis | $100,000 | Numerous 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallis | $45,000 | Trees downed, barns and buildings damaged along Highway 36 between Wallis and Orchard. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallis | $25,000 | Numerous 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallis | $10,000 | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees and power lines from Brazoria southwestward to around 1 mile west of the San Bernard River. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallis | $10,000 | Roof damage and trees blown down. |
| August 1996 | Hail | Wallis | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallis | $5,000 | The Texas Department of Safety reported metal outbuildings were blown over of FM 949 between Cat Spring and San Felipe. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Wallis | $5,000 | The Austin County Sheriff's Department relayed a public report of nickel-size hail in Wallis. |
| November 1995 | Hail | Wallis | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallis | $3,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds downed numerous power lines south of Wallis which left most of the community without power. |
| February 1999 | Hail | Wallis | $3,000 | no account filed |
| February 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallis | $2,000 | Tree was downed on Birch Street due to thunderstorm winds. |
| September 2023 | Flash Flood | Wallis | - | Heavy rain resulted in street flooding in the Meadow Bend subdivision near FM518 in League City. |
| August 2021 | Funnel Cloud | Wallis | - | A funnel cloud was sighted in the Offatts Bayou area near Galveston Island. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallis | - | Crops destroyed from Wallis to the Ft. Bend county line. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Frydek | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Brazos Country | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Frydek | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Rexville | 10.2 miles | 10 | |
| Beard | 10.4 miles | 10 | |
| San Felipe | 11.3 miles | 13 | |
| Sealy | 11.4 miles | 11 | |
| Macedonia | 15.4 miles | 11 |
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 Wallis | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981741 | 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 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.




