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.
Population over time
2 figuresChilton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 911 | |
| 2020 | 776 | -135 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 14 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.
- 1892 USGS Temple quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Chilton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Temple quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2008Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 24 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FALLS COUNTY BRUSH FIRE #1 |
| 5 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 540 RIVERVIEW RD |
| 4 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2012-114 |
| 22 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 90 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 June 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 527 HONEY LN. |
| 22 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 242 MT. PLEASANT DRIVE |
| 19 January 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 77 |
| 12 January 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Hail | Chilton | $50,000 | A tree was blown onto a garage, heavily damaging a car inside. There were numerous reports of power lines being blown down. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chilton | $50,000 | A tree was blown onto a garage, heavily damaging a car inside. There were numerous reports of power lines being blown down. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Chilton | $5,000 | HAM radio operators reported golfball sized hail in Chilton. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chilton | $2,000 | Law enforcement reported a tree being knocked over and was blocking the road near the intersection of Hwy 7 and CR 4012 in Chilton. |
| April 2020 | Lightning | Chilton | $1,000 | A house was struck by lightning along Highway 7 near Chilton. Minimal damage was sustained to the house. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chilton | $1,000 | Several outbuildings blown down west of Chilton on FM 965. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chilton | $1,000 | High wind damaged a camper. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Chilton | - | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). |
| March 2011 | Hail | Chilton | - | Quarter size hail covered the road about 3 miles southeast of Dott. |
| January 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Chilton | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Chilton | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Hail | Chilton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dott | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Triangle | 3.9 miles | 8 | |
| Tomlinson Hill | 4.2 miles | 8 | |
| Mooreville | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| North Prairie | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Satin | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Lott | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Guda | 5.7 miles | 14 |
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 Chilton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q973366 | 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 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.




