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.
Population over time
2 figuresCeleste 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 814 | |
| 2020 | 809 | -5 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Celeste quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS McKinney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
147 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 71 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 47 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 1023 WOLFE CITY |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ANDERSON FIRE |
| 3 September 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSS FIRE CR 1093 AND FM 1562 |
| 3 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 1143 AND HWY 69 |
| 28 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 1091 GRASS FIRE |
| 28 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE CR 1017 |
| 24 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CROSS TIE |
| 23 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 903 AND CR 1132 BRUSH /GRAAS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
32 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Hail | Celeste | $25,000 | Dime to golf ball sized hail was reported in Celeste. |
| October 2010 | Hail | Celeste | $20,000 | Golf ball size hail was reported at HWY 69 and FM 903 near Celeste. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Celeste | $15,000 | Multiple sources reported 1.75-2 sized hail in Celeste. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Celeste | $10,000 | Damage to buildings was reported in Celeste. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Celeste | $10,000 | Trees and power lines blown down by winds estimated at 70 MPH. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Celeste | $7,000 | Social media photos showed hail up to golf ball size fell near Hwy 69 at CR 1145. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Celeste | $5,000 | Numerous power lines knocked down between Celeste and Wolfe City. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Celeste | $5,000 | Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Celeste | $3,000 | A barn roof was damaged. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Celeste | $2,000 | Ping pong ball sized hail 5 miles west-northwest of Celeste. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Celeste | $2,000 | High winds blew power lines down. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Celeste | - | Emergency manager reported 1 inch hail in Celeste. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Celeste | - | Amateur radio reported half-dollar sized hail about a mile west of Kingston, TX. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Celeste | - | A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail in Celeste, TX. |
| February 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Celeste | - | Emergency management reported trees blown down in the city of Celeste, TX. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Celeste | - | Amateur radio reported quarter-size hail in the city of Celeste, TX. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Celeste | - | Social Media and Broadcast media website (NBC-5 share your weather reports) reported 2 inch hail in Celeste. Time estimated by radar. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Celeste | - | A trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail 3 miles south of the city of Celeste, TX. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Celeste | - | Emergency management reported half-dollar sized hail in the city of Celeste, TX. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Celeste | - | Amateur radio reported quarter-sized hail in the City of Celeste, TX. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Celeste | - | Emergency Manager reported golfball size hail near Celeste. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Celeste | - | Emergency management reported numerous roads being flooded throughout the city of Celeste, TX. |
| April 2017 | Flood | Celeste | - | Fire Department reports several inches of moving water over road at HWY 69. |
| April 2017 | Flood | Celeste | - | Emergency management reported approximately 10 inches of water over the road between Greenville and Celeste on Highway 69. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Celeste | - | High water was reported at the intersection of CR 1151 and CR 1154 near Celeste. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Celeste | - | Tree limbs down. |
| April 1993 | Hail | Celeste | - | Hail measuring 1.00 to 2.00 inches in diameter was reported by storm spotter just east of Celeste. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Celeste | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | Celeste | - | no account filed |
| March 2014 | Hail | Celeste | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Celeste | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Celeste | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hogeye | 1.7 miles | 6 | |
| Midway | 2.4 miles | 6 | |
| Kingston | 3.0 miles | 6 | |
| Lane | 3.6 miles | 7 | |
| White Rock | 4.4 miles | 6 | |
| Hickory Creek | 5.3 miles | 6 | |
| Kellogg | 6.3 miles | 7 | |
| Merit | 7.3 miles | 10 |
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 Celeste | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q975056 | 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 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.



