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Calvert, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Calvert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77837. The Survey maps it on the Calvert quadrangle. 962 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 328 feet above sea level.

Calvert within Robertson County

On record in Calvert

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Calvert fell from 1,192 to 962 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
20101,192
2020962-230 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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

64 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Calvert between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,411 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
21 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 6 NORTH OF MUD CREEK
19 September 2018Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceW. KEZEE
15 September 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTIDWELL RD.
10 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHOMPSON RD
8 August 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1644
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1644
30 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Robertson County

Storms near this place

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calvert in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 2010Thunderstorm WindCalvert$30,000Numerous trees were blown down in the city of Calvert.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindCalvert$5,000Robertson County Sheriff's Department reported that the roof was blown off of a house in Calvert, TX, and that trees were reported down across the county.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindCalvert$5,000Robertson County Sheriff's Department reported roof damage in the city of Calvert, TX.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindCalvert$2,000Power lines were blown down by high winds.
June 2025Flash FloodCalvert$1,000EM reported water over the roadway at Tidwell Creek and South Main.
May 2024HailCalvert-Quarter sized hail was reported just south of Calvert via a social media picture.
April 2019Tornado (EFU)Calvert-A brief rope tornado occurred approximately 5 miles northwest of the city of Calvert, TX. The tornado was rated EF-0, lasted less than 30 seconds and produced no known damage.
November 2018HailCalvert-Broadcast media reported hail slightly larger than quarters in the city of Calvert, TX.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindCalvert-Calvert Police Department reported several trees blocking a couple of roads near the city of Calvert, TX.
May 2017HailCalvert-A social media report indicated quarter size hail in Calvert.
June 2012HailCalvert-Penny sized hail was reported north of Calvert.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindCalvert-Trees down.
October 2006Flash FloodCalvert-Streets were flooded and closed in Calvert and on FM 1644 between Calvert and Franklin.
June 2004Flash FloodCalvert-FM 1644 was barricaded due to high water.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCalvert-4 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down in Calvert.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindCalvert-Large tree limbs were blown off trees.
October 1998Flash FloodCalvert-Farm Market Road 1640 was flooded near Calvert and in Franklin.
March 2017HailCalvert-no account filed
March 2014HailCalvert-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindCalvert-no account filed
April 1996HailCalvert-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Robertson 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
Calvert Junction4.2 miles8
Barton4.5 miles8
Marvin4.6 miles8
Seger4.7 miles7
Salter5.4 miles8
Elliot5.8 miles7
Goodland6.6 miles8
Tidwell Prairie7.8 miles8

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 CalvertAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981815The 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 1353586. 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.