East Bernard, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Bernard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77435. The Survey maps it on the East Bernard quadrangle. 2,218 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 125 feet above sea level.

East Bernard within Wharton County

Population over time

2 figures

East Bernard fell from 2,272 to 2,218 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	2,272
2020	2,218	-54 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Wallis quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS East Bernard quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Bernard in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 lightning, 2 tornado. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	East Bernard	3 hurt	A pulse severe thunderstorm produce strong winds that downed power lines in East Bernard.
August 2017	Tornado (EF1)	East Bernard	$300,000	Tornado began as a weak EF0 in East Bernard then tracked NW across SH 90 where it strengthened to EF1 snapping the trunks of several large mature oak and pecan trees. A house suffered significant brick facade damage to one side of the home. Four apartments were damaged on college street.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	East Bernard	$150,000	Roof blown off Big State Grass Farm near SH 60. Trailer overturned, carport destroyed, and trees down in El Lobo subdivision.
August 2017	Tornado (EF0)	East Bernard	$50,000	Trees down along a southeast to northwest path. Horse trailer overturned. Tornado caught on video.
May 2006	Lightning	East Bernard	$25,000	Lightning strike caused a house attic fire that produced minor damage.
August 2000	Hail	East Bernard	$25,000	no account filed
May 2006	Lightning	East Bernard	$20,000	Lightning strike caused minor damage to a home.
April 2000	Hail	East Bernard	$15,000	Quarter sized hail reported at East Bernard and at Spanish Camp.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	East Bernard	$11,000	Houses were damaged in the East Bernard area close to Highway 60.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	East Bernard	$10,000	Wind gusts collapsed a metal bleacher at the East Bernard High School.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	East Bernard	$9,000	Strong thunderstorm winds caused major roof damage to a residential home on the 400 block of Lewis Street in East Bernard.
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	East Bernard	$5,000	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	East Bernard	$4,000	no account filed
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	East Bernard	$3,000	Severe thunderstorm winds downed large tree limbs onto power lines and cars in the East Bernard area.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	East Bernard	$3,000	Large limbs blown down.
April 1995	Hail	East Bernard	$1,000	Sheriffs office reported dime- to quarter-size hail in east Bernard.
May 2019	Hail	East Bernard	-	Quarter sized hail was reported.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	East Bernard	-	Trees were downed and there was damage to a barn on the east end of CR 272 near the San Bernard River.
January 2012	Hail	East Bernard	-	Severe thunderstorms produced ping pong sized hail in the East Bernard area.
August 2005	Funnel Cloud	East Bernard	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wharton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Nottawa	4.2 miles	10
Lissie	8.4 miles	10
Hungerford	9.1 miles	8
Sand Ridge	12.4 miles	9
Egypt	12.4 miles	8
Bonus	12.4 miles	9
Dorman	12.9 miles	8
Sorrelle	14.1 miles	9

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 East Bernard	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q974279	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 1334880. 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.