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Celeste, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Celeste census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75423. The Survey maps it on the Celeste quadrangle. 809 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Celeste within Hunt County

Population over time

2 figures

Celeste fell from 814 to 809 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
2010814
2020809-5 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

147 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Celeste between 2005 and 2020, burning about 642 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Equipment and vehicle use21
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
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
9 September 2014Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1023 WOLFE CITY
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANDERSON FIRE
3 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSS FIRE CR 1093 AND FM 1562
3 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1143 AND HWY 69
28 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1091 GRASS FIRE
28 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE CR 1017
24 September 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCROSS TIE
23 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 903 AND CR 1132 BRUSH /GRAAS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hunt County

Storms near this place

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Celeste in 32 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 20 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
June 2012HailCeleste$25,000Dime to golf ball sized hail was reported in Celeste.
October 2010HailCeleste$20,000Golf ball size hail was reported at HWY 69 and FM 903 near Celeste.
June 2019HailCeleste$15,000Multiple sources reported 1.75-2 sized hail in Celeste.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindCeleste$10,000Damage to buildings was reported in Celeste.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindCeleste$10,000Trees and power lines blown down by winds estimated at 70 MPH.
March 2025HailCeleste$7,000Social media photos showed hail up to golf ball size fell near Hwy 69 at CR 1145.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCeleste$5,000Numerous power lines knocked down between Celeste and Wolfe City.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCeleste$5,000Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindCeleste$3,000A barn roof was damaged.
March 2016HailCeleste$2,000Ping pong ball sized hail 5 miles west-northwest of Celeste.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindCeleste$2,000High winds blew power lines down.
April 2026HailCeleste-Emergency manager reported 1 inch hail in Celeste.
April 2022HailCeleste-Amateur radio reported half-dollar sized hail about a mile west of Kingston, TX.
April 2022HailCeleste-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail in Celeste, TX.
February 2019Thunderstorm WindCeleste-Emergency management reported trees blown down in the city of Celeste, TX.
March 2019HailCeleste-Amateur radio reported quarter-size hail in the city of Celeste, TX.
June 2019HailCeleste-Social Media and Broadcast media website (NBC-5 share your weather reports) reported 2 inch hail in Celeste. Time estimated by radar.
April 2017HailCeleste-A trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail 3 miles south of the city of Celeste, TX.
March 2017HailCeleste-Emergency management reported half-dollar sized hail in the city of Celeste, TX.
March 2017HailCeleste-Amateur radio reported quarter-sized hail in the City of Celeste, TX.
May 2017HailCeleste-Emergency Manager reported golfball size hail near Celeste.
August 2017Flash FloodCeleste-Emergency management reported numerous roads being flooded throughout the city of Celeste, TX.
April 2017FloodCeleste-Fire Department reports several inches of moving water over road at HWY 69.
April 2017FloodCeleste-Emergency management reported approximately 10 inches of water over the road between Greenville and Celeste on Highway 69.
June 2007Flash FloodCeleste-High water was reported at the intersection of CR 1151 and CR 1154 near Celeste.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindCeleste-Tree limbs down.
April 1993HailCeleste-Hail measuring 1.00 to 2.00 inches in diameter was reported by storm spotter just east of Celeste.
March 2016HailCeleste-no account filed
March 2016HailCeleste-no account filed
March 2014HailCeleste-no account filed
April 2002HailCeleste-no account filed
May 1999HailCeleste-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hunt 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
Hogeye1.7 miles6
Midway2.4 miles6
Kingston3.0 miles6
Lane3.6 miles7
White Rock4.4 miles6
Hickory Creek5.3 miles6
Kellogg6.3 miles7
Merit7.3 miles10

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 CelesteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975056The 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 1354174. 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.