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Elmo, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Terrell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75161. The Survey maps it on the Elmo quadrangle. 803 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 512 feet above sea level.

Elmo within Kaufman County

Population over time

2 figures

Elmo grew from 768 to 803 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
2010768
2020803+35 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

165 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Elmo between 2005 and 2020, burning about 880 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were 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 burning88
Equipment and vehicle use32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Smoking17
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
7 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJUAN
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 353
5 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 316A
4 September 2015Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTULLY
2 September 2015Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVINCENT
2 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000262
13 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAZEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Elmo: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Malone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tull PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kaufman County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmo in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2009: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 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
May 2007Thunderstorm WindElmo$100,000Numerous large trees were uprooted, and large limbs pulled down power lines. Several business signs in town were knocked over and the ceiling of a drive-thru bank was damaged. The damage to the ceiling was estimated at $15,000. Falling trees damaged houses and vehicles, and windows were blown out of one business.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindElmo$15,000Strong winds resulted in roof damage and blew down trees.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindElmo$2,000Trees that were a foot in diameter were down on FM 2728 3 miles south of Elmo.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindElmo$1,000Twelve inch tall trees were down on FM 2728, 3 miles south of Elmo.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindElmo$500A centuries old tree was knocked over at the College Mound Cemetery.
May 1999Flash FloodElmo-Thunderstorms caused water to cover the road at Interstate 20 and College Mound.
January 1998Flash FloodElmo-Farm-to-Market Road 2727 was flooded at the intersection of Highway 429.
October 1998Flash FloodElmo-High water was reported on Highway 80.
May 2003HailElmo-no account filed
July 2003HailElmo-no account filed
May 1999HailElmo-no account filed
April 1995HailElmo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kaufman 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
Frog1.3 miles10
Cobb3.5 miles10
College Mound3.6 miles10
Cedar Grove4.8 miles12
Terrell5.9 miles10
Hiram6.2 miles10
Abner6.6 miles10
Ables Springs6.8 miles12

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 ElmoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982537The 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 1335410. 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.