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Chilton, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Chilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76632. The Survey maps it on the Chilton quadrangle. 776 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 428 feet above sea level.

Chilton within Falls County

Population over time

2 figures

Chilton fell from 911 to 776 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
2010911
2020776-135 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Chilton between 2008 and 2018, burning about 129 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1

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
20 September 2015Debris and open burning24 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFALLS COUNTY BRUSH FIRE #1
5 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service540 RIVERVIEW RD
4 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2012-114
22 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined90 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 June 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service527 HONEY LN.
22 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service242 MT. PLEASANT DRIVE
19 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 77
12 January 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls County

Storms near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chilton in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
July 1994HailChilton$50,000A tree was blown onto a garage, heavily damaging a car inside. There were numerous reports of power lines being blown down.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindChilton$50,000A tree was blown onto a garage, heavily damaging a car inside. There were numerous reports of power lines being blown down.
May 2010HailChilton$5,000HAM radio operators reported golfball sized hail in Chilton.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindChilton$2,000Law enforcement reported a tree being knocked over and was blocking the road near the intersection of Hwy 7 and CR 4012 in Chilton.
April 2020LightningChilton$1,000A house was struck by lightning along Highway 7 near Chilton. Minimal damage was sustained to the house.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindChilton$1,000Several outbuildings blown down west of Chilton on FM 965.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindChilton$1,000High wind damaged a camper.
June 2025HailChilton-Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).
March 2011HailChilton-Quarter size hail covered the road about 3 miles southeast of Dott.
January 1998Tornado (F0)Chilton-A brief tornado touchdown was reported.
April 2021HailChilton-no account filed
October 1997HailChilton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Falls 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
Dott3.5 miles14
Triangle3.9 miles8
Tomlinson Hill4.2 miles8
Mooreville4.3 miles15
North Prairie4.4 miles14
Satin4.9 miles14
Lott5.5 miles13
Guda5.7 miles14

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 ChiltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973366The 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 1354403. 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.