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Weir, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Jarrell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78626. It stands on Weir Branch. The Survey maps it on the Weir quadrangle. 699 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

Weir within Williamson County

Population over time

3 figures

Weir grew from 591 to 699 between 2000 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
2000591
2010450-141 (-24%)
2020699+249 (+55%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

80 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Weir between 2000 and 2019, burning about 442 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
17 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 49
11 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE. UNIVERSITY AVE AT REINHARDT BLVD
8 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17-8090021
27 August 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4100 N IH 35 NB
24 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service450 CR 152
17 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1107 N.E. INNER LOOP
17 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service5500 E SH 29
16 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNE INNER LOOP @ E SH 29

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weir in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2009Tornado (EF1)Weir$1,000,000A NWS storm survey concluded an EF1 tornado with winds estimated at 85 to 95 mph developed three miles WSW of Jonah, moved northeast and dissipated one mile west of Jonah along Hwy 29. Over 20 homes were damaged, mostly minor roof damage due to falling branches and trees. Several out buildings and small storage sheds were destroyed. Three power poles were snapped. One travel trailer was rolled on its side.
April 2025HailWeir-A thunderstorm produced penny size hail west of Weir.
September 2023HailWeir-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail between Georgetown and Weir.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindWeir-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 80 mph that blew down large tree limbs southwest of Weir.
September 2014Flash FloodWeir-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing several county roads east of Highway 130 near Highways 29 and 79.
August 2012Flash FloodWeir-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing FM 971 near Berry Creek.
June 2010Flash FloodWeir-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flooding and closed County Road 100.
December 2018HailWeir-no account filed
April 2017HailWeir-no account filed
March 2013HailWeir-no account filed
April 2008HailWeir-no account filed
April 2008HailWeir-no account filed
April 2008HailWeir-no account filed
May 2002HailWeir-no account filed
September 1996HailWeir-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Jonah3.4 miles17
Mozo3.4 miles17
Walburg4.4 miles17
Berrys Creek4.9 miles20
North Georgetown5.2 miles20
Keelersville5.6 miles17
Georgetown5.7 miles20
Serenada6.0 miles20

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 WeirAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978790The 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 1370999. 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.

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.