Wallisville, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Anahuac census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77597. The Survey maps it on the Anahuac quadrangle. It stands 7 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1942 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Anahuac quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Wallisville between 1996 and 2014, burning about 381 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge | WF OFFICE CHIP PILE |
| 4 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 600 |
| 18 June 2010 | Debris and open burning | 190 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 226 |
| 5 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.3 acres | Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge | WF TCP OFFICE |
| 2 March 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 65 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 65 |
| 18 March 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 October 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
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 Wallisville: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lost Lake Salt Dome | Halite | Occurrence | 1925 |
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallisville in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 5 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Wallisville | 5 hurt, $100,000 | Tornado crossed the Old Trinity River Bridge on I-10, blowing over 10 semi trucks. One eastbound semi was dumped onto two cars. Another westbound semi was picked up, blown across a stone retaining wall, ripped through metal fencing and landed on a car in the westbound lane. Description of trucks were one loaded with 60K pounds of nuts and bolts, another with 42K pounds of paper towels, and a tanker truck filled with spring water. 5 injured transported to local area hospital. |
| April 2000 | Hail | Wallisville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallisville | $3,000 | Trees blown down on Glenwood Rd. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallisville | $2,750 | There were trees and power lines downed in Wallisville. |
| April 2009 | Flash Flood | Wallisville | $1,000 | Heavy rainfall due to slow moving thunderstorms produced brief road closures along Interstate 10, with four feet of water reported over the road at the intersection of Highway 61 and the interstate. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Wallisville | - | Quarter sized hail was reported to the east northeast of Cove. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eminence | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Cove | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Turtle Bayou | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Old River-Winfree | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Anahuac | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Hankamer | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Mont Belvieu | 7.9 miles | 15 | |
| Monroe City | 9.0 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 Wallisville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7963154 | 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 1379227. 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.






