Hallsburg, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76705. The Survey maps it on the Elk quadrangle. 419 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 499 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresHallsburg fell from 518 to 419 between 2000 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 518 | |
| 2010 | 507 | -11 (-2%) |
| 2020 | 419 | -88 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1920 USGS Mart quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Elk quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mexia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
97 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Hallsburg between 2003 and 2020, burning about 860 acres in total. 1 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 | 40 |
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCCRAY FIRE |
| 20 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ELK RD PATTY FIRE |
| 9 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 202000009 |
| 7 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 115 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 29 |
| 6 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RANDY HUGHES GRASS FIRE |
| 29 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | THE BRANCH EE FIRE |
| 27 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7601 LAKE FELTON PKWY GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hallsburg in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Lightning | Hallsburg | 1 killed | One person was struck and killed by lightning at Tradinghouse Creek Reservoir in Hallsburg while walking to her car after a boating trip. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Hallsburg | $100,000 | Numerous social media photos showed hail ranging from golf ball to baseball size in Hallsburg. Significant damage occurred to vehicles with destroyed windshields and large dents. |
| November 2025 | Hail | Hallsburg | $100,000 | A social media video indicated that hail up to golfball sized covered the ground in the city of Hallsburg. Wind-driven hail also caused siding damage to several buildings in the Hallsburg area. |
| November 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallsburg | $50,000 | Social media photos showed roof damage to several homes and outbuildings in Hallsburg. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallsburg | $50,000 | Several barns and a shed were destroyed by high winds. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Hallsburg | $40,000 | Baseball sized hail was reported in Hallsburg. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Hallsburg | $11,000 | Emergency manager reported 2.25 inch diameter hail near Tradinghouse Lake. |
| November 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallsburg | $10,000 | A social media picture indicated that a sheet metal roof was partially removed from a building in Hallsburg. Additional photos indicated a camper moved 3 feet and windows blown out of a home in Hallsburg. |
| March 2016 | Heavy Rain | Hallsburg | $8,000 | A young man died and a female was injured when the car they were traveling lost control during a heavy thunderstorm and crashed. The vehicle was on SH 6 crossing the SH 164 bridge at the time. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hallsburg | $3,000 | Trees were blown down across roads in Hallsburg. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Hallsburg | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Hallsburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981137 | 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 1379881. 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.




