Alba, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Alba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75410. The Survey maps it on the Alba quadrangle. 473 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 456 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAlba fell from 504 to 473 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 504 | |
| 2020 | 473 | -31 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Alba quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Alba quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Mineola quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
277 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Alba between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,256 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 202 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 30 September 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 26 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 26 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILDLAND |
| 25 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS |
| 24 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILDLAND |
| 24 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 22 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODLANDS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
42 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alba in 42 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 7 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 deaths. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1995 | Hail | Alba | 2 killed | Two persons in a boat were struck and killed by lightning. (M56O, M??O) |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Alba | $60,000 | High water from excessive heavy rainfall was in a few homes in the town of Alba, Texas. |
| May 2004 | Lightning | Alba | $5,000 | Lightning struck a home causing some structural damage. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | $5,000 | Reported by Skywarn spotters in the Alba Volunteer Fire Department. Several trees and powerlines were also toppled in town leaving power outages. |
| October 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | $5,000 | Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | A metal southwest facing wall of a pole barn was blown down at a residence off of County Road 1600 near County Road 1609. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | Trees and power lines downed in the Alba community. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Alba | - | A picture was posted to social media of quarter size hail that fell north of Alba along Lake Fork. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Alba | - | Ping pong ball size hail reported near Alba via social media. |
| October 2023 | Flash Flood | Alba | - | County Road 1676 was flooded and closed, causing a vehicle to be stranded in high water. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | Several trees downed in Alba. |
| December 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | Trees were downed in the Alba community. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | Trees and power lines were blown down near Alba. A tree fell onto a moving car. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | Two barns were destroyed and one metal shop was damaged. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Alba | - | Half dollar size hail fell just west of Lake Fork Dam. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | Damaging winds rolled an empty horse trailer into a tree near Alba. Trees and numerous large limbs were also downed. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Alba | - | A photo was posted on the KLTV Facebook page of golfball size hail that fell in Alba. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Alba | - | Numerous roads were flooded throughout Wood County. |
| December 2015 | Flash Flood | Alba | - | Flood waters covered County Road 1560 at Dale Creek on Lake Fork. |
| December 2015 | Flash Flood | Alba | - | Water covering parts of County Road 1681 south of Alba, Texas. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Alba | - | Many roads were flooded and closed throughout Wood County. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | Local Fire Department in Quitman reported a tree downed across FM 182 near Lake Fork Dam. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | Trees were downed in the community. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | Trees were downed. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | Deputies measured wind gusts to 60 mph. |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | Trees downed. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | Trees downed on Hwy 69. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | Measured wind gust from the Alba Fire Department. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | Several large trees toppled. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | Trees and power lines down. |
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Alba | - | FM182 closed due to flash flooding. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Alba | - | Two persons in a boat were struck and killed by lightning. (M56O, M??O) |
| April 2014 | Hail | Alba | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Alba | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Alba | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Alba | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Alba | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Hail | Alba | - | no account filed |
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alba | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Alba | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Alba | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Alba | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q979629 | 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 1329324. 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.





