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Woodsboro, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Woodsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78393. The Survey maps it on the Woodsboro quadrangle. 1,319 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 41 feet above sea level.

Woodsboro within Refugio County

Population over time

2 figures

Woodsboro fell from 1,512 to 1,319 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
20101,512
20201,319-193 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Woodsboro between 2008 and 2019, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
29 May 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH OF DAIRY QUEEN
11 March 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMITH
19 February 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOPELAND RD AND REED ST
13 February 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePARKER
15 November 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 October 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 77 GRASS FIRE
24 October 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service77N
22 January 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARKET136

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Refugio County

Storms near this place

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodsboro in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 flash flood, 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
March 2018Tornado (EF0)Woodsboro$100,000Tornado touched down near the Woodsboro Farm Co-op damaging the ladder caging on one bin. The tornado moved east-southeast taking down power lines and damaging the roofs of several homes. One roof was completely removed from a mobile home. Minor tree damage was noted along the path length. Damage occurred to another mobile home near the high school before the tornado lifted.
April 2017HailWoodsboro$10,000Refugio County Sheriff received a call of golf ball sized hail falling in Woodsboro.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWoodsboro$500Large tree was uprooted at Hwy 136 and 3rd Street. A 59 mph wind gust was also measured from a nearby home weather station. Pea sized hail was also reported.
September 2025Heavy RainWoodsboro-Total of 3.15 inches.
April 2023HailWoodsboro-Spotter reported hail from quarter to ping pong ball size in Woodsboro.
May 2021Flash FloodWoodsboro-Flooded roads reported in and around Refugio, including Quinn Road.
March 2016Flash FloodWoodsboro-Texas Department of Transportation reported water over the highway on Farm to Market Road 629 between Farm to Market Roads 136 and 1360.
September 2010Flash FloodWoodsboro-FM 1360 closed southeast of Woodsboro due to flooding.
September 2010FloodWoodsboro-High water closed FM 629 from FM 136 to FM 3037 southeast of Woodsboro.
January 2010FloodWoodsboro-Low water crossings were flooded with water over the roadway along FM 1360. FM 629 was closed from FM 3037 and FM 136 due to water over the road. Flooding of these roads, creeks, and lowland fields were observed several hours after the heavy rainfall had ended.
July 2010Flash FloodWoodsboro-Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding along a creek, closing FM 629 between FM 3037 and FM 136 due to water flowing over the road from the creek.
September 2010Tornado (EF0)Woodsboro-Sheriff reported a tornado briefly touched down at the intersection of Locke Street and Kasten Avenue in Woodsboro. No damage reported.
May 2004HailWoodsboro-Golf-ball sized hail damaged windshield of Sheriff Officer's vehicle.
May 2004Flash FloodWoodsboro-Several roads in Woodsboro experienced flooding. Radar estimated 3 to 5 inches of rain fell along and west of U.S. 77, across the west-central portion of the county, including the city of Woodsboro. See episode narrative below for additional rainfall totals.
March 2003Flash FloodWoodsboro-Flooding on State Highway 1360.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindWoodsboro-Wind damage...TRaffic lightblown down by wind. Reported by Sheriffs office.
March 2000Flash FloodWoodsboro-Twelve inches of rain fell over southern Refugio County, causing the closure of FM 1360 from Woodsboro to Bayside.
August 2005HailWoodsboro-no account filed
April 2004HailWoodsboro-no account filed
October 1998Flash FloodWoodsboro-no account filed
October 1998Flash FloodWoodsboro-no account filed
May 1996HailWoodsboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Refugio 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
Bonnie View5.0 miles8
Refugio5.2 miles8
Cranell6.2 miles8
Black Point (historical)10.9 miles8
Old Saint Marys11.1 miles9
Bayside11.4 miles9
Ryanville11.5 miles8
Quintana11.9 miles9

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 WoodsboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975991The 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 1350565. 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.