Ellinger, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fayetteville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78938. It stands on Fllinger Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ellinger quadrangle. 203 people lived here at the 2021 count. It stands 292 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEllinger fell from 223 to 203 between 1950 and 2021. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 223 | |
| 2021 | 203 |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1919 USGS Fayettsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Ellinger quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What the histories say of this town
825 words1 chapter about Ellinger from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.
| Chapter | From | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Fayette County, Her History and Her People | Fayette County, Her History and Her People (1902) | 825 words |
Fires near this place
7 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Ellinger between 1999 and 2011, burning about 165 acres in total. None 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 96 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUNES MILL ROAD |
| 19 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 129 |
| 27 April 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WESSELS RD FIRE |
| 26 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 8 |
| 24 December 1999 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ellinger: 3 producers. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellinger Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| Spring Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| Thorstenberg Baca Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellinger in 2 storm reports in 2016: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Ellinger | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 71 at Kitchen Ln. |
| April 2016 | Flash Flood | Ellinger | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing FM955 at Hwy 71. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gay Hill | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Tamberg | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Fayetteville | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Joiner | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Mullins Prairie | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Holman | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Halsted | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Rek Hill | 7.3 miles | 11 |
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 Ellinger | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5365386 | 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 1335318. 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.




