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Willis, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Willis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77378. The Survey maps it on the Willis quadrangle. 6,431 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Willis within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Willis grew from 5,662 to 6,431 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
20105,662
20206,431+769 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

168 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Willis between 1992 and 2019, burning about 740 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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 burning94
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2004Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 20
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 845
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 389
5 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 391
30 September 2004Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 49
29 September 2011Natural1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 950

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

42 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willis in 42 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 18 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 4 tornado, 3 flash flood. 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
November 2008Flash FloodWillis$150,000Flooding extended from central Montgomery County, around the Willis and Woodloch areas, westward to the southern portions of Grimes County, including the Todd Mission and Plantersville areas.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindWillis$30,000Thunderstorm winds downed large trees across the county. The largest damage area was in and around Panorama Village where at least thirty-five oak trees were downed along Winged Foot Drive. Some of the downed trees damaged homes.
December 2001Tornado (F0)Willis$30,000An F0 Tornado touched down in Willis, along Montgomery Street, on FM 1097. Trees were uprooted, power lines were snapped with power outages in town, and there was minor roof damage to some homes. There were no injuries. Reported by Sheriff and public.
April 1999Tornado (F0)Willis$30,000Tornado near Willis. Trees down in area and mobile home damaged in Walnut Creek subdivision.
December 1995Thunderstorm WindWillis$30,000A roof of a barn was blown off and a carport was destroyed.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindWillis$25,000Thunderstorm winds tore off two porches and destroyed a metal building. Winds also blew shingles off a house near the intersection of Blueberry Hill Road and FM 1097.
February 2005HailWillis$25,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindWillis$15,000Trees down in Lake Conroe and Willis areas.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindWillis$14,000A tree was downed on a house on Maggie Lane.
April 1999HailWillis$10,000no account filed
April 1998HailWillis$10,000no account filed
November 2004HailWillis$8,500no account filed
January 1998HailWillis$7,000no account filed
January 2020Thunderstorm WindWillis$6,000There was some damage to a barn on Maggie Lane.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWillis$5,000Severe thunderstorm winds snapped a road sign off that struck and damaged a wrecker truck near the Calvary Road and Interstate 45 intersection.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindWillis$5,000Trees were downed in Willis due to strong thunderstorm winds.
January 2004HailWillis$5,0001 inch hail along FM 2432, Willis-Waukegan road, outside of Willis.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindWillis$5,000Trees down in Willis and northern portions of the county.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindWillis$5,000Trees blown down
February 2005HailWillis$5,000no account filed
March 2005HailWillis$4,000no account filed
January 2004HailWillis$3,0000.75" hail in Willis.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindWillis$3,000Sheriff's office reported trees down on FM 1097.
April 1998HailWillis$3,000no account filed
April 2010HailWillis$1,000Quarter sized hail was observed on the north side of Willis.
March 2009HailWillis$1,000Quarter-sized hail was reported along FM 1097.
April 2023HailWillis-There was quarter sized hail between Waverly and Willis.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindWillis-Widespread tree damage was reported in the Panorama Village area.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindWillis-Extensive tree damage was reported in the vicinity of Corinthian Point Yacht Club.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindWillis-Widespread significant tree damage was observed in the Cape Malibu subdivision in Willis.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindWillis-Local law enforcement reported a downed tree and several downed power lines due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2017HailWillis-Golf ball sized hail was reported near Willis.
August 2017Flash FloodWillis-Water was reported over sections of I-45 northbound where TXDOT reported flooding at the FM 1097 intersection.||Record pool levels on Lake Conroe required downstream releases that flooded numerous downstream homes, businesses and vehicles. Major flooding occurred along the San Jacinto River and the east Fork of the San Jacinto and its tributaries inundated tens to hundreds of residential subdivisions. There were hundreds of flooded homes along Lake, Spring, Peach and Caney Creeks.
May 2016HailWillis-Golf ball size hail was reported near Willis.
April 2016Flash FloodWillis-Heavy rainfall caused the flooding, and the subsequent closure, of Rose Road. There was also flooded streets in the nearby Royal Forest subdivision.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindWillis-A tree was downed by severe thunderstorm winds.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindWillis-There were reports of numerous trees downed, residential damage and power outages.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindWillis-A large tree was downed by severe storm winds along FM 1097.
December 2015Tornado (EF2)Willis-This tornado touched down near Calvary Road around Robertson Park where tree trunks were snapped. Damage became more continuous just to the north near Pollard Road on the west side of Interstate 45 where large strands of pine trees were snapped. The tornado appeared to cross Interstate 45 near Exit 97 where it hit a large metal industrial building. Damage to this structure warranted the EF-2 rating.|The tornado then appeared to run parallel to Route 75 where it caused significant tree damage and flipped and destroyed multiple RVs at an RV park.
March 2013HailWillis-The half dollar size hail was reported at the FM 830 and Interstate 45 intersection.
November 2012HailWillis-Nickel to quarter sized hail was reported near Willis.
November 2004Tornado (F0)Willis-One tree down on Highway 1097 in Willis.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Panorama Village3.1 miles13
Esperanza4.4 miles13
Ada4.4 miles13
Mount Zion5.4 miles13
Beach7.9 miles14
Conroe7.9 miles14
Leonidas8.1 miles13
Cut and Shoot9.0 miles13

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 WillisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980252The 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 1371602. 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.