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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.

Ellinger within Fayette County

Population over time

2 figures

Ellinger 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.

YearPeople Change
1950223
2021203

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

What the histories say of this town

825 words

1 chapter about Ellinger from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
Fayette County, Her History and Her PeopleFayette County, Her History and Her People (1902)825 words

Fires near this place

7 since 1999

Regional 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined96 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUNES MILL ROAD
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 129
27 April 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWESSELS RD FIRE
26 April 2003Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 8
24 December 1999Debris and open burning12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ellinger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Spring PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Thorstenberg Baca PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2016Flash FloodEllinger-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 71 at Kitchen Ln.
April 2016Flash FloodEllinger-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing FM955 at Hwy 71.

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Gay Hill4.4 miles10
Tamberg4.9 miles11
Fayetteville4.9 miles11
Joiner5.7 miles10
Mullins Prairie5.7 miles10
Holman5.7 miles10
Halsted6.2 miles10
Rek Hill7.3 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 EllingerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5365386The 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.