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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.

Hallsburg within McLennan County

Population over time

3 figures

Hallsburg 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.

YearPeople Change
2000518
2010507-11 (-2%)
2020419-88 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

97 since 2003

Regional 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning25
Equipment and vehicle use24
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Smoking1

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
26 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCCRAY FIRE
20 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceELK RD PATTY FIRE
9 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service202000009
7 August 2003Debris and open burning115 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 29
6 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRANDY HUGHES GRASS FIRE
29 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTHE BRANCH EE FIRE
27 August 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7601 LAKE FELTON PKWY GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLennan County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2007LightningHallsburg1 killedOne person was struck and killed by lightning at Tradinghouse Creek Reservoir in Hallsburg while walking to her car after a boating trip.
April 2026HailHallsburg$100,000Numerous 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 2025HailHallsburg$100,000A 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 2025Thunderstorm WindHallsburg$50,000Social media photos showed roof damage to several homes and outbuildings in Hallsburg.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindHallsburg$50,000Several barns and a shed were destroyed by high winds.
April 2023HailHallsburg$40,000Baseball sized hail was reported in Hallsburg.
April 2026HailHallsburg$11,000Emergency manager reported 2.25 inch diameter hail near Tradinghouse Lake.
November 2025Thunderstorm WindHallsburg$10,000A 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 2016Heavy RainHallsburg$8,000A 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 2008Thunderstorm WindHallsburg$3,000Trees were blown down across roads in Hallsburg.
May 2014HailHallsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLennan 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
Lake Creek2.1 miles8
Harrison2.5 miles8
Battle3.7 miles8
Neale3.8 miles18
Oaklake3.8 miles18
Riesel4.7 miles8
Elk5.5 miles8
Blackland5.5 miles8

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 HallsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981137The 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.