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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.

Dell City within Hudspeth County

Population over time

3 figures

Dell 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.

YearPeople Change
2000413
2010365-48 (-12%)
2020245-120 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Storms near this place

25 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2004Flash FloodDell City$50,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindDell City$20,000no account filed
September 2017Thunderstorm WindDell City$10,000The Sheriff reported downed power lines in Dell City.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindDell City$10,000Several 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 2009Flash FloodDell City$10,000Heavy rain produced major street flooding in Dell City.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindDell City$5,000A 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 2010Thunderstorm WindDell City$3,000Power 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 2007Thunderstorm WindDell City$3,000A microburst damaged a roof and caused some structural damage to a home in Dell City.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDell City$2,000no account filed
October 2004HailDell City$2,000no account filed
July 2025Flash FloodDell 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 2017Thunderstorm WindDell City-Dell City mesonet recorded a peak gust of 72 mph.
May 2015Flash FloodDell City-TXDOT out of Dell City reported 1 foot of water on highway 1437 two miles south of town.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindDell City-Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph caused a power outage and visibilities near zero in blowing dust.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindDell City-Strong thunderstorm winds damaged part of a home and an adjacent building
May 1999Thunderstorm WindDell City-Thunderstorm wind gusts around 60 mph blew a tarp off a roof and bent metal retaining poles.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindDell City-Strong winds produced by a thunderstorm blew down electric poles and damaged the roof of a home.
July 1997HailDell City-Report hail location 3 miles southeast of Dell City
June 1997Thunderstorm WindDell City-Wind speed estimated by Sheriff's Department
May 2008HailDell City-no account filed
May 2008HailDell City-no account filed
July 2004Flash FloodDell City-no account filed
October 2004HailDell City-no account filed
October 2000HailDell City-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindDell City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hudspeth 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
Brownfeld Corner4.9 miles8
Salt Flat14.6 miles7
Cornudas18.0 miles7
Coyote Place37.1 miles10
Loma Linda Estates Colonia40.6 miles11
Mile High47.4 miles12
Finlay52.1 miles11
Etholen52.8 miles13

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977295The 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.