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Texico, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Clovis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88135. The Survey maps it on the Farwell quadrangle. 956 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,147 feet above sea level.

Texico within Curry County

Population over time

2 figures

Texico fell from 1,130 to 956 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
20101,130
2020956-174 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 1943

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Texico, New Mexico. Conductor E.K. Hill about to get off the caboose as an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train pulls into a siding
Texico, New Mexico. Conductor E.K. Hill about to get off the caboose as an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train pulls into a siding
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Texico, New Mexico. Conductor E.K. Hill inspecting the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad train in a siding
Texico, New Mexico. Conductor E.K. Hill inspecting the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad train in a siding
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Texico between 1994 and 2017, burning about 468 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/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use5
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
28 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use200 acresMule Shoe National Wildlife RefugeSHREDDER FIRE
24 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use100 acresLas Vegas DistrictUS 70
1 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionMABRY
26 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionPLANT
16 May 2017Natural25 acresLas Vegas DistrictGARRETT
9 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named
22 April 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionFEEDLOT
2 April 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Divisionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Curry 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 Texico: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. 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
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Curry County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Texico in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 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
October 2019Flash FloodTexico$100,000An amateur radio operator two miles west-northwest of Clovis reported 4.50 of rainfall in 24 hours. Significant flooding impacted low lying areas around Clovis. Dennis Chavez Park overflowed into nearby streets resulting in several stranded motorists. Local emergency services rescued several people from their vehicles. State Road 77 was also closed due to flooding near Pleasant Hill. Damage amounts are estimated for flood damage to one half dozen vehicles.
May 2023HailTexico-The emergency manager relayed a report of golf ball size hail.
May 2023Tornado (EFU)Texico-An off duty National Weather Service employee reported a landspout that began near County Road 6 and Curry Road B and moved south to near County Road 5. There was no damage reported.
June 2014Funnel CloudTexico-Spotter observed funnel cloud.
June 2014HailTexico-Golfball sized hail mixed with nickel and quarter sized hail.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindTexico-Wind gust estimated at 70 mph near Texico.
June 2013HailTexico-Penny hail near Texico.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindTexico-Clovis AWOS sites reported peak wind gust of 66mph as a line of thunderstorms moved through the area.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindTexico-The wind pushed a small Chevy truck, that was in neutral, 30 yards down a driveway.
May 2023HailTexico-no account filed
July 2007HailTexico-no account filed
August 2006HailTexico-no account filed
May 2003Funnel CloudTexico-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindTexico-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindTexico-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Curry 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
Clovis8.2 miles9
Pleasant Hill9.2 miles7
Gallaher13.1 miles8
Portair13.3 miles8
Claud15.7 miles7
Ranchvale15.9 miles8
Grier18.5 miles8
Saint Vrain23.3 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 TexicoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2054222The 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 915905. 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.