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Elbert, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Throckmorton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76372. The Survey maps it on the Padgett quadrangle. 29 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,155 feet above sea level.

Elbert within Throckmorton County

Population over time

3 figures

Elbert fell from 56 to 29 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
200056
201030-26 (-46%)
202029-1 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Elbert between 2005 and 2020, burning about 248 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2020135
25 August 2009Debris and open burning100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIVER BRIGE
11 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHEARD RD
11 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePADGETT
8 May 2011Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1158

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Throckmorton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Elbert: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Avery Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Throckmorton County

Storms near this place

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elbert in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 21 hail, 6 tornado, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
October 1993Tornado (F1)Elbert$500,000A tornado near Elbert destroyed a mobile home, three vehicles, and killed four cows. One of the dead cows had a two by six board driven all the way through it. Damage was estimated at 100,000 dollars.
April 2000Tornado (F1)Elbert$200,000A tornado struck the small community of Elbert. There was considerable damage to mobile homes and metal buildings, with lesser damage noted in permanent structures. A cotton gin was destroyed, with the silo blown northeast across State Highway 79. The tornado apparently first touched down near Elbert, tracking eastward along State Highway 79 to the Young County line. Fortunately, there were no reported injuries.
April 2000HailElbert$150,000no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindElbert$80,000Damaging winds destroyed 2 large grain elevator and downed trees in the small community of Elbert.
April 2000Tornado (F1)Elbert$50,000A tornado developed west of Elbert, tracking along a 4 mile path to just northwest of Elbert.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindElbert$8,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew the roof off of a building in Elbert.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindElbert$5,000Several barns and outbuildings were destroyed by severe thunderstorm winds.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindElbert$5,000A 7200-volt distribution line pole was broken off by high winds.
August 2013LightningElbert$3,000A lightning strike caused a tank battery fire near Elbert.
April 2025Flash FloodElbert-Public reported road flooding due to flash flooding and a few vehicles stranded.
May 2016Tornado (EF0)Elbert-The Throckmorton Volunteer Fire Department trained spotters reported a tornado briefly touching down about 5 miles northwest of Elbert.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Elbert-The public observed a tornado crossing the field about 4 miles northwest of Elbert north of Highway 79 near FM 2459.
April 2013HailElbert-A trained spotter reported two inch hail in Elbert.
April 2013HailElbert-A trained spotter reported two inch hail a mile east of Elbert.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindElbert-Law enforcement reported a 60 mph wind gust.
June 2011HailElbert-Golf ball sized hail was reported covering the ground according to a gas station attendant.
June 2005HailElbert-Hail covered the ground.
June 2002Tornado (F0)Elbert-Law enforcement reported a brief tornado in Elbert. No structures were hit by the tornado.
June 1995HailElbert-Highway 183 was closed by high water.
October 1993HailElbert-A tornado near Elbert destroyed a mobile home, three vehicles, and killed four cows. One of the dead cows had a two by six board driven all the way through it. Damage was estimated at 100,000 dollars.
May 2017HailElbert-no account filed
May 2015HailElbert-no account filed
April 2015HailElbert-no account filed
April 2014HailElbert-no account filed
April 2002HailElbert-no account filed
April 2000HailElbert-no account filed
April 2000HailElbert-no account filed
April 2000HailElbert-no account filed
April 2000HailElbert-no account filed
May 2000HailElbert-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindElbert-no account filed
April 1996HailElbert-no account filed
November 1996Flash FloodElbert-no account filed
April 1993HailElbert-no account filed
October 1993HailElbert-no account filed
October 1993HailElbert-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Throckmorton 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
Spring Creek7.4 miles8
Throckmorton11.5 miles8
Woodson17.6 miles8
Lusk20.5 miles11
McKeichan Crossing22.0 miles8
Bartholomew Crossing23.0 miles8
Gentry Crossing23.4 miles8
Reynolds Crossing23.6 miles8

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 ElbertAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q974495The 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 1373614. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.