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Chireno, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Chireno-Martinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75937. The Survey maps it on the Chireno South quadrangle. 370 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 322 feet above sea level.

Chireno within Nacogdoches County

Population over time

2 figures

Chireno fell from 386 to 370 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
2010386
2020370-16 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Chireno between 1992 and 2020, burning about 322 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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 burning21
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE CANCELLED
27 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 August 2000Arson/incendiarism30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 599
26 August 2011Natural22 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 451
25 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE AT ETME
2 August 2013Natural17 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7070

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this place

26 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chireno in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
June 2007Thunderstorm WindChireno1 killedA woman driving along FM 226 near the town of Etoile was killed when the top of a pine tree was snapped off and went through her windshield. Reported by Departement of Public Safety.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindChireno$500,000The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey in Nacogdoches and San Augustine County and concluded that damage was the result of a major downburst. Hundreds of trees from Chireno to San Augustine and to the south were either uprooted or snapped. A few single story homes in the Denning area sustained major structural damage due to large oak trees falling onto the homes. Several chicken houses were damaged by the downburst winds along FM road 1196. The roofs were peeled back. Numerous cars were damaged due to fallen trees, such as along FM road 1277, where two full size trucks were pinned by large oak trees.
April 2019Tornado (EF1)Chireno$5,000An EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds near 95 mph touched down along County Road 442 a few miles southwest of Chireno, where numerous trees were snapped or uprooted in a heavily wooded area, while continuing northeast along and across County Road 443. The tornado lifted just east of County Road 443, although the rear flank downdraft from this storm tore off a 100 foot section of tin roofing from a vacant chicken house just off of County Road 442. Portions of the roofs from three other adjacent vacant chicken houses were partially lifted up about two inches. Damaging straight line winds of 80-85 mph from this same storm uprooted a tree in front of the Chireno ISD Building on Main Street in Chireno, with numerous trees downed in a north northeasterly direction along Highway 27 about 1-2 miles east of Chireno near the San Augustine County line.
March 1995Thunderstorm WindChireno$3,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down by high winds.
March 2026HailChireno-Half dollar size hail reported in the Chireno community.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindChireno-A large tree was blown down across the Attoyac Bayou bridge along the Nacogdoches/San Augustine County line. A vehicle hit the tree, but no injuries were reported.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindChireno-Multiple trees downed in Chireno.
June 2024HailChireno-Quarter size hail reported in Chireno via social media.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindChireno-Several trees and power lines downed in Chireno.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindChireno-A tree was downed and blocking one lane of Highway 21 near Chireno.
May 2021Flash FloodChireno-FM 95 was flooded just south of County Road 486.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindChireno-A tree was split in Chireno.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindChireno-Trees were downed along Hwy. 21 in Chireno, Texas.
April 2015HailChireno-Quarter inch hail fell 11 miles north northwest of Chireno, Texas.
November 2015Flash FloodChireno-High water was reported on Hwy. 21 between Nacogdoches and San Augustine, Texas.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindChireno-Several trees were down in and around the Chireno area.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindChireno-A tree was downed on FM. 95 near Chireno, Texas.
June 2012HailChireno-Quarter sized hail was reported in Chireno, Texas.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindChireno-Several trees were blown down in Chireno, Texas.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindChireno-Trees downed on CR 434.
August 2004HailChireno-Hail fell in the Etoile community.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindChireno-Trees and power lines downed.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindChireno-Numerous large trees down in town.
May 2006HailChireno-no account filed
February 2005HailChireno-no account filed
April 2000HailChireno-no account filed

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
Suttons Mill1.7 miles12
Clear Springs2.9 miles12
Attoyac4.1 miles11
La Cerda4.9 miles12
Melrose7.9 miles11
Etoile9.0 miles12
Woden9.3 miles12
Martinsville10.4 miles11

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 ChirenoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981972The 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 1381638. 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.