Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Bevil Oaks, TX

Bevil Oaks is a small incorporated city in northern Jefferson County that was formed from the two subdivisions of Bevil Acres and River Oaks and incorporated in 1963.

The city hugs the south bank of Pine Island Bayou, which forms the Hardin County line, and State Highway 105 runs along its southern boundary, about 12 miles northwest of Beaumont.

Bevil Oaks covers just 2.06 square miles and had 1,089 residents at the 2020 census, part of the Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan area.

The 2020 census counted 384 households in Bevil Oaks, and about 89% of its occupied housing units were owner-occupied.

The 2020 census classified 100% of Bevil Oaks residents as living in rural areas, even though the city sits inside a metropolitan area built around the petrochemical industry.

Hurricane Harvey stalled over the Beaumont area in August 2017 and left all of Bevil Oaks under water: roughly 48 inches of rain fell, and many homes sat in up to six feet of water for five days.

Bevil Oaks' population fell 14.5% between the 2010 census (1,274) and the 2020 census (1,089), during the long recovery from Harvey's flooding.

In an unusual school-district fight, Bevil Oaks citizens petitioned their way out of the Beaumont Independent School District, and on July 1, 2018, the city officially moved into the Hardin-Jefferson Independent School District.

Bevil Oaks' economy is largely dependent on the "Golden Triangle" industrial region of Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange.

Bevil Oaks has no police department of its own: it was served by a City Marshal from about 1967 until 2011, and since then law enforcement has come from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.