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Elmwood, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Frankston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75803. The Survey maps it on the Wilkerson Mountain quadrangle. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

Elmwood within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

231 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 231 fires within 5 miles of Elmwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,387 acres in total. 22 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 burning123
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Natural22
Equipment and vehicle use18
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony1

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/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNEW CHAPEL REKINDLE
7 September 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 210
5 September 1993Smoking4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution3,700 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNEW CHAPEL FIRE
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOVERTY HILL
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 210
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 584
30 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson 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 Elmwood: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite, Halite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General. 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
Brushy Creek Salt DomeHalite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, GeneralOccurrenceAnhydrite, Calcite, Celestite, Halite
Concord Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1942

Every working recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmwood in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindElmwood$10,000Roof damage was reported in the Elmwood area near ACR 445.
May 2021HailElmwood$4,000Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported along FM 837 east of FM 315. The hail covered the ground causing ground fog and slick driving conditions on the roadway.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindElmwood$3,000Trees were down on FM 315 and FM 321.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindElmwood$1,000Emergency management reported that trees and power lines were blown down near the intersection of County Road 444 and FM 315.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindElmwood-Trees down near the intersection of FM 321 and FM 315 in the Elmwood area, just north of Palestine.
April 2019HailElmwood-A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail approximately 5 miles west of the city of Neches, TX.
January 2011HailElmwood-Penny size hail fell at the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 315 and County Road 441 about 10 miles north of Palestine.
February 2009HailElmwood-Quarter size hail fell on Anderson County Road 441, west of FM 315.
February 2009HailElmwood-Nickel size hail fell at the Elmwood Fire Station.
October 2009Flash FloodElmwood-Mound Prairie Creek at SH 155 was out of its banks and flooding nearby pastures.
March 2008HailElmwood-Quarter-size hail was reported in Elmtown.

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Elmtown1.6 miles13
Brushy Creek2.8 miles13
Pert4.5 miles13
Mound Prairie4.8 miles13
Montalba6.2 miles13
Fosterville6.3 miles15
Bois d'Arc7.0 miles12
Neches8.0 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 ElmwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22076473The 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 1379720. 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.