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Eldorado, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Eldorado West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76936. The Survey maps it on the Eldorado quadrangle. 1,574 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,438 feet above sea level.

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Eldorado within Schleicher County

Population over time

2 figures

Eldorado fell from 1,951 to 1,574 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,951
20201,574-377 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

51 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Eldorado between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,576 acres in total. 12 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/undetermined14
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOPLAR AND FIELDS
3 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePAULA RANCH
26 September 2019Natural25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILL WIGGINS
20 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2596 MCINTOSH RD
10 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service915
10 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJJOYCE ANN SPECK
3 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWELDER FIRE
29 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use450 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHLEICHER COUNTY FIRE

Every fire recorded in Schleicher County

Storms near this place

60 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eldorado in 64 storm reports between 1994 and 2006: 36 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 7 tornado, 4 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
November 1996HailEldorado$4,500,000no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindEldorado$500,000no account filed
February 1997Thunderstorm WindEldorado$100,000no account filed
May 1994Tornado (F0)Eldorado$50,000The Schleicher County Sheriff's Office reported a tornado at Eldorado at 0710 CST. Two mobile homes were overturned (one burned after a gas line ruptured), a few power poles were snapped, and trees were uprooted. One of the trees damaged a house. Damages were estimated at $45,000.
August 1996Flash FloodEldorado$50,000no account filed
June 1997Tornado (F1)Eldorado$35,000Brief tornado touchdown. Trees uprooted.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindEldorado$25,000Winds blew down large tree branches in the town of Eldorado.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindEldorado$25,000no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindEldorado$15,000Winds blew down large tree branches and three power lines.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindEldorado$12,000A mobile home was destroyed when a severe thunderstorm moved through the area.
May 1999Tornado (F2)Eldorado$10,000A slow moving tornado skipped across a 23 mile long path just north of Eldorado in northern Schleicher County. Eleven power poles were snapped, trees uprooted, and at least 2 barns lost their roofs as the tornado passed. Other outbuildings along the path of the tornado were also damaged.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindEldorado$7,000The Schleicher County ISD's exhibit building lost its roof when high winds blew through the area, tossing the debris onto Highway 277. Luckily, all the animals inside the building were unhurt.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindEldorado$5,000High winds ripped the roofs off of two barns across southwest Schleicher County.
May 1995HailEldorado$5,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindEldorado$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindEldorado$500Large tree limbs broken
October 1998Thunderstorm WindEldorado$500High winds downed tree limbs across the city
August 2006Flash FloodEldorado-Law enforcement officials reported water over the road at numerous low water crossings on Ranch Road 915 between Eldorado and Mertzon.
May 2003Flash FloodEldorado-Several roads to the southeast of Eldorado had water over them.
August 2001Flash FloodEldorado-Heavy rainfall forced the closure of Ranch Road 915 for the second time this day, as flood waters forced Finnegan Draw to climb out of its banks near the Eldorado city limits.
April 2000HailEldorado-Hail the size of tennis balls pounded an area north of Eldorado in northern Schleicher County.
April 2000HailEldorado-Golf ball size hail was reported in northern Scheicher County.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindEldorado-Wind gusts up to 60 mph reported by the sheriff's office.
May 1997Tornado (F0)Eldorado-Brief tornado touchdown.
May 1997Tornado (F0)Eldorado-Brief tornado touchdown.
May 1994HailEldorado-Quarter-size hail was reported in Colorado City by a local radio station. Hail up to tennis ball-size covered the ground at Dunn in Scurry County. It also damaged crops. The Scurry County Sheriff's Office reported a brief tornado at Hermleigh that did not cause damage. However, a tornado touched down at Hobbs in western Fisher County at 1840 CST. It caused considerable damage to the co-op school. It also damaged a farm house and green houses, snapped power poles, and downed trees, signs, and fences. Total damage from this tornado was estimated at $50,000. Golf ball-size hail was reported at Roscoe by the Department of Public Safety. Schleicher County,13,0630CST- *,,0900CST,,,0,0,0,0,Flash Flood Farm-to-Market roads 2129 and 915 were closed in western Schleicher County due to water over the roads.
March 2006HailEldorado-no account filed
March 2006HailEldorado-no account filed
March 2006HailEldorado-no account filed
March 2005HailEldorado-no account filed
May 2005HailEldorado-no account filed
June 2005HailEldorado-no account filed
May 2005HailEldorado-no account filed
June 2005HailEldorado-no account filed
May 2004HailEldorado-no account filed
November 2004HailEldorado-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindEldorado-no account filed
May 2003HailEldorado-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindEldorado-no account filed
April 2002HailEldorado-no account filed
May 2002HailEldorado-no account filed
April 2001HailEldorado-no account filed
October 2001HailEldorado-no account filed
April 2000HailEldorado-no account filed
April 2000HailEldorado-no account filed
April 2000HailEldorado-no account filed
April 2000HailEldorado-no account filed
April 2000HailEldorado-no account filed
April 2000HailEldorado-no account filed
April 2000HailEldorado-no account filed
March 1999HailEldorado-no account filed
May 1999HailEldorado-no account filed
October 1998HailEldorado-no account filed
May 1997HailEldorado-no account filed
June 1997Tornado (F0)Eldorado-no account filed
April 1997HailEldorado-no account filed
March 1997Tornado (F0)Eldorado-no account filed
March 1997HailEldorado-no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindEldorado-no account filed
May 1996HailEldorado-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Schleicher 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
Hulldale11.5 miles13
Adams18.5 miles11

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 EldoradoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q664419The 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 1356891. 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.