Dell City, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dell City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79837. The Survey maps it on the Dell City quadrangle. 245 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,701 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresDell City fell from 413 to 245 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 413 | |
| 2010 | 365 | -48 (-12%) |
| 2020 | 245 | -120 (-33%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1951 USGS Dell City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Van Horn quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Dell City quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Dell City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
25 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dell City in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Dell City | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell City | $20,000 | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell City | $10,000 | The Sheriff reported downed power lines in Dell City. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell City | $10,000 | Several utility poles and trees were blown down in Dell City. A tin roof was also torn off of a house. In addition, rainfall totals of 1 to 2 inches were reported. |
| July 2009 | Flash Flood | Dell City | $10,000 | Heavy rain produced major street flooding in Dell City. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell City | $5,000 | A rapidly moving line of thunderstorms produced wind gusts to 70 mph which resulted in roof damage and doors blown off a house east of Dell City. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell City | $3,000 | Power was knocked out in Dell City for more than 12 hours after wind blew the phase off of a transmission pole a mile and a half north of Highway 62/180. In addition 1 to 2 inches of rain also fell across the area. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell City | $3,000 | A microburst damaged a roof and caused some structural damage to a home in Dell City. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell City | $2,000 | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Hail | Dell City | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Dell City | - | Almost 5 inches of rain was reported from multiple people in Dell City. Roads were impassable for awhile. Rain fell at around 1 inch per hour for 4 hours. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell City | - | Dell City mesonet recorded a peak gust of 72 mph. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Dell City | - | TXDOT out of Dell City reported 1 foot of water on highway 1437 two miles south of town. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell City | - | Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph caused a power outage and visibilities near zero in blowing dust. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell City | - | Strong thunderstorm winds damaged part of a home and an adjacent building |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell City | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts around 60 mph blew a tarp off a roof and bent metal retaining poles. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell City | - | Strong winds produced by a thunderstorm blew down electric poles and damaged the roof of a home. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Dell City | - | Report hail location 3 miles southeast of Dell City |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell City | - | Wind speed estimated by Sheriff's Department |
| May 2008 | Hail | Dell City | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Dell City | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Dell City | - | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Hail | Dell City | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Dell City | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brownfeld Corner | 4.9 miles | 8 | |
| Salt Flat | 14.6 miles | 7 | |
| Cornudas | 18.0 miles | 7 | |
| Coyote Place | 37.1 miles | 10 | |
| Loma Linda Estates Colonia | 40.6 miles | 11 | |
| Mile High | 47.4 miles | 12 | |
| Finlay | 52.1 miles | 11 | |
| Etholen | 52.8 miles | 13 |
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 Dell City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q977295 | 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 1355897. 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.
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.




