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Chillicothe, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chillicothe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79225. It lies near Big Valley. The Survey maps it on the Chillicothe quadrangle. 549 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,401 feet above sea level.

Chillicothe within Hardeman County

Population over time

4 figures

Chillicothe fell from 1,207 to 549 between 1910 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
19101,207
2000798
2010707-91 (-11%)
2020549-158 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

107 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Chillicothe between 2005 and 2015, burning about 3,528 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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
Smoking23
Equipment and vehicle use21
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPEAR GRASS FIRE
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOVERPASS
4 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWAYNE HAYNES
4 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUTCH HALL
30 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDUB RODGERS
20 September 2010Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFORBES PLACE
18 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePERKINS FARMS
17 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePERKINS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardeman County

Storms near this place

60 of 100 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chillicothe in 100 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 62 hail, 28 thunderstorm wind, 8 tornado, 2 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
May 2001Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$300,000Damage to buildings, trees, power poles, and other infrastructure was sustained city-wide.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$50,000no account filed
October 1993HailChillicothe$50,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$12,000Several power poles were blown down. Monetary damages were estimated.
September 2004Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$7,500A tree fell over a power line in town.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$5,000Power lines were downed and trees uprooted on Farm to Market Road 91.
June 2008HailChillicothe$2,000The windshield of the police chief's car was broken by the falling hail.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$2,000A roof and tree were damaged.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$1,500A ten inch diameter tree limb was downed.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$1,000no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$10Tree limbs ranging from eight to ten inches in diameter blocked numerous roads between Chillicothe and Medicine Mound.
May 2024HailChillicothe-Relayed by broadcast media.
May 2015Flash FloodChillicothe-Texas Department of Transportation reports water over Highway 287 in Chillicothe.
May 2015Flash FloodChillicothe-Flooding north of Chillicothe on FM 2006 and FM 90. Also on FM 91 and FM 924. Up to a foot of water over roads.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Chillicothe-A storm chaser documented the beginning of a large and long-lived tornado in northeast Hardeman County. No damage is known to have occurred in Hardeman County. The tornado moved into Wilbarger County and eventually into Oklahoma with a total path length of 40 miles.
April 2012HailChillicothe-The hail was reported near Holden Road on Highway 287.
April 2012HailChillicothe-The hail was reported on FM 924.
June 2009HailChillicothe-The hail was reported near the junction of FM 1167 and Highway 392.
June 2007HailChillicothe-The hail was reported at Roadside Park and US 287.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindChillicothe-Wind gust was measured on Highway 287.
May 2006Tornado (F0)Chillicothe-A slow moving tornado was observed by storm chasers for about 30 seconds. No known damage.
May 2004HailChillicothe-Hail was observed on south side of town.
April 2025HailChillicothe-no account filed
April 2025HailChillicothe-no account filed
April 2025HailChillicothe-no account filed
June 2023HailChillicothe-no account filed
September 2023HailChillicothe-no account filed
May 2020HailChillicothe-no account filed
May 2017HailChillicothe-no account filed
April 2016HailChillicothe-no account filed
April 2016HailChillicothe-no account filed
October 2016HailChillicothe-no account filed
April 2014HailChillicothe-no account filed
March 2012HailChillicothe-no account filed
May 2010HailChillicothe-no account filed
April 2009HailChillicothe-no account filed
April 2009HailChillicothe-no account filed
April 2009HailChillicothe-no account filed
April 2009Thunderstorm WindChillicothe-no account filed
May 2009HailChillicothe-no account filed
June 2009HailChillicothe-no account filed
June 2009HailChillicothe-no account filed
April 2009Thunderstorm WindChillicothe-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindChillicothe-no account filed
June 2008HailChillicothe-no account filed
April 2006HailChillicothe-no account filed
June 2006HailChillicothe-no account filed
June 2006HailChillicothe-no account filed
June 2006HailChillicothe-no account filed
May 2006HailChillicothe-no account filed
May 2006HailChillicothe-no account filed
May 2005HailChillicothe-no account filed
May 2005HailChillicothe-no account filed
September 2005HailChillicothe-no account filed
September 2005HailChillicothe-no account filed
September 2005HailChillicothe-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindChillicothe-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindChillicothe-no account filed
May 2004HailChillicothe-no account filed
May 2004HailChillicothe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardeman 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
Medicine Mound6.3 miles9
Quanah12.2 miles10
Willowview12.2 miles10
Carnes15.3 miles11
Talbert Crossing15.4 miles10
Middleburg15.5 miles10
Acme (historical)16.8 miles10
Punkin Center19.4 miles10

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 ChillicotheAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975508The 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 1373085. 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.