El Campo, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the El Campo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77437. The Survey maps it on the El Campo quadrangle. 12,350 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 105 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEl Campo grew from 11,602 to 12,350 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 | 11,602 | |
| 2020 | 12,350 | +748 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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.
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS El Campo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS El Campo quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
49 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of El Campo between 2008 and 2010, burning about 426 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1700 S. MEADOW LN. |
| 24 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1200 W. LOOP |
| 24 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 August 2009 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 810 LILLY ST. |
| 5 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1000 MONSERETTE ST. |
| 4 July 2009 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1500 BRAVO ST. |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
40 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names El Campo in 40 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 16 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 7 funnel cloud, 5 tornado. The reports record 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Campo | 3 hurt, $20,000 | Mobile home overturned. |
| November 2003 | Tornado (F0) | El Campo | 2 hurt, $8,000 | Tornado sighted by personnel in a large plant nursery. Employees took cover and F0 tornado blew out two windows of an on-site office building. Two minor injuries. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Campo | 1 hurt | Man injured in Hillje while trying to cover a grain trailer with a tarp when wind gust blew him down. |
| March 2002 | Hail | El Campo | $50,000 | Emergency Management and Sheriff witnessed Baseball sized Hail at State Highway 59 and FM 1163, with one inch hail covering the ground. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Campo | $50,000 | Awning of gas station blown off with car overturned. |
| April 1997 | Flash Flood | El Campo | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Tornado (F0) | El Campo | $40,000 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Campo | $25,000 | Power poles down between Nada and Crescent. |
| April 2004 | Hail | El Campo | $20,000 | Golf ball-size hail in El Campo. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Campo | $20,000 | 25 powerpoles blown down, roof ripped off mobile home, and a car port was destroyed. |
| June 1997 | Tornado (F0) | El Campo | $20,000 | House on Thrift St. moved 4 feet off concrete piers. Bard sustained minor damage in Pierce. |
| May 2009 | Lightning | El Campo | $15,000 | A lightning strike produced significant damage to a home in El Campo. The lightning struck a tree in the backayrd and traveled along the ground to the home. The sheetrock was destroyed along two interior walls of the home. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Campo | $15,000 | Power pole and several trees down. |
| April 2004 | Hail | El Campo | $10,000 | Penny-size hail in El Campo. |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Campo | $10,000 | Wind damage to the roof of a home in the New Taiton area. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Campo | $10,000 | Trees and powerpoles blown down. Structural damage to mobile homes. |
| June 1998 | Hail | El Campo | $10,000 | no account filed |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Campo | $8,000 | Broadcast media reported that multiple trees were downed, and various sheds were overturned or blown away in El Campo. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Campo | $8,000 | Large tree down across a small residential porch structure. |
| March 2001 | Hail | El Campo | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Campo | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | El Campo | $3,000 | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Hail | El Campo | $3,000 | no account filed |
| November 2003 | Tornado (F0) | El Campo | $1,000 | Storage shed destroyed with its tin debris field spread to the northeast 1/4 mile. |
| December 2002 | Hail | El Campo | $1,000 | 0.75 inch hail in El Campo. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Campo | - | A few trees were downed. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Campo | - | There were trees downed with two of them blocking roadways. |
| February 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Campo | - | Power lines were downed near the intersection of West Norris Street and West Loop Street. |
| April 2015 | Hail | El Campo | - | Dime sized hail was reported in the El Campo area. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Campo | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a tree in El Campo. |
| March 2006 | Funnel Cloud | El Campo | - | Sighted on FM 2765. |
| April 2004 | Tornado (F0) | El Campo | - | Sighted between El Campo and Danevang. |
| July 2004 | Funnel Cloud | El Campo | - | Spotted on Highway 59. |
| September 2004 | Funnel Cloud | El Campo | - | Spotted at FM 2546 and Hwy 71. |
| November 2004 | Flash Flood | El Campo | - | Town streets flooded. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | El Campo | - | An easterly wave combined with extreme heating to produce severe weather across the upper Texas coastal area on the 31st. A cluster of severe thunderstorms formed over Chambers and eastern Harris counties, and evolved into a bow echo formation as they moved southwestward into Harris County. The bow echo produced widespread wind damage in the downtown, Galleria, and southwest portions of Houston between 400 and 500 PM CDT. The bow echo then pushed into northern Ft. Bend County producing wind damage there before weakening slightly. Severe thunderstorms continued southwestward into southern Ft. Bend and Wharton counties during the early evening hours. |
| June 2004 | Funnel Cloud | El Campo | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Funnel Cloud | El Campo | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Funnel Cloud | El Campo | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Funnel Cloud | El Campo | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pierce | 4.7 miles | 8 | |
| Hillje | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Plainview | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Jones Creek | 6.6 miles | 8 | |
| Mackay | 8.1 miles | 9 | |
| New Taiton | 8.7 miles | 8 | |
| Hahn | 8.9 miles | 8 | |
| Louise | 9.2 miles | 8 |
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 El Campo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q969474 | 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 1356861. 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.



