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Caro, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Cushing-Douglass census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75964. The Survey maps it on the Trawick quadrangle.

Caro within Nacogdoches County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Caro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,005 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 14 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 burning68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 530
8 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 529
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 489
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNACOGDOCHES 17:34
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 509
4 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON-7121
29 September 2010Arson/incendiarism25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 112
27 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 570

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caro in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025HailCaro-Quarter size hail reported near the Central Heights community.
March 2025HailCaro-Quarter size hail reported in the Caro community.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindCaro-Numerous trees were blown down or topped along Highway 259 near County Road 204.

Every storm recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Mahl2.1 miles12
Trawick2.3 miles11
North Redland2.6 miles12
Linn Flat2.8 miles11
Pleasant Hill3.7 miles11
Central Heights3.8 miles12
Redfield5.6 miles12
Oak Flat5.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379510. 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.