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Cisco, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cisco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76437. The Survey maps it on the Cisco North quadrangle. 3,883 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,634 feet above sea level.

Cisco within Eastland County

On record in Cisco

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Cisco fell from 3,899 to 3,883 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
20103,899
20203,883-16 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

53 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Cisco between 2006 and 2020, burning about 4,363 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
19 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 168
17 September 2011Natural25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceORSAGE FIRE
7 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service329 IH 20
4 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKING
28 August 2011Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBULLARD CEMETARY
20 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service156
7 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceATLAS
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMALDONADO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eastland 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 Cisco: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Terra Firma Tile Corp OperationsClayProducer
Waters PitsKaolin, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer1940

Every working recorded in Eastland County

Storms near this place

60 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cisco in 64 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 39 hail, 10 flash flood, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. 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
June 2007LightningCisco$100,000A lightning strike hit a chemical plant, causing several explosions. One man was killed in the fire that followed.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCisco$15,000Power lines were blown down in Cisco. The local emergency manager estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
June 2009HailCisco$15,000Marble to Softball size hail fell in and southeast of Cisco for approximately 15 minutes.
May 2007LightningCisco$15,000Lightning knocked out power to the county's dispatch center, forcing employees to move to another building.
April 2025HailCisco$10,000Mping report of 2 inch hail.
May 2015HailCisco$10,000Amateur radio reported orange-sized hail just south of Cisco, TX.
August 2005Flash FloodCisco$10,000Several vehicles stranded due to high water over roads.
April 2024HailCisco$7,000Amateur radio reported 2 inch hail around 0.9 miles northwest of Cisco.
May 2009HailCisco$6,000Half Dollar to Golfball size hail fell in Cisco.
May 2006HailCisco$5,000Golf ball-size hail reported in Nimrod.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Cisco$5,000The tornado moved mostly through open country damaging fences and tearing sheet metal off a barn, then moved into southern Stephens County before lifting 3 miles southeast of Eolian. This was reported by a rancher, whose property the tornado passed through.
April 2008HailCisco$5,000no account filed
April 2008HailCisco$5,000no account filed
July 2016HailCisco$3,000Golf ball size hail reported 1 to 2 miles south of Cisco.
June 2008Flash FloodCisco$3,000Water was reported over roads in Cisco and a nursing home was flooded in Gorman.
May 2011HailCisco$3,000no account filed
October 2002Thunderstorm WindCisco$2,000Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
June 2011HailCisco$2,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindCisco$2,000no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCisco-The Eastland AWOS station (KGZN) measured a 60 mph (52 knot) wind gust.
May 2023HailCisco-Report received via mPING.
March 2019HailCisco-A social media report indicated nickel-sized hail in the city of Cisco, TX.
July 2016HailCisco-Broadcast media received a picture of ping pong to golf ball sized hail from a viewer just south of Cisco, Texas.
May 2015HailCisco-A public report of ping pong ball sized hail was received on the north side of the super-cell thunderstorm in Cisco, TX.
July 2013FloodCisco-The Eastland County Sheriff's Department reported the South Fork of the Leon River was out of its banks. The bridge over County Road 169 was underwater.
July 2013Heavy RainCisco-The Eastland County Sheriff's Department reported rainfall totals across the western part of the county were between and 8 and 11 inches.
May 2012HailCisco-Half dollar sized hail was reported on Interstate 20 between Cisco and Eastland.
April 2012HailCisco-Quarter sized hail was reported in Cisco.
June 2009HailCisco-Nickel size hail fell in Cisco.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCisco-Large tree limbs blown down.
June 2007Flash FloodCisco-Street flooding occurred in town and also at the intersection of Highway 6 and Interstate 20.
November 2006HailCisco-Relayed by Eastland County Police Department. Dime-size hail was covering the ground in some areas.
March 2005HailCisco-Nickel size hail reported by spotters at I-20 and Highway 206.
June 2005Flash FloodCisco-Officials closed I-20 near the Eastland/Callahan county line due to flooding; relayed by WFO SJT.
August 2005Flash FloodCisco-Streets flooded west of Cisco.
August 2005Flash FloodCisco-FM 2495 closed between Cisco and Putnam due to flooding. Numerous other streets flooded in Cisco.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Cisco-A National Weather Service employee observed a small tornado on the ground in open country for several minutes.
October 2002Flash FloodCisco-Water over Highways 183 and 246 south of Cisco near the Sabana River.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Cisco-A brief touchdown was reported. No damage occurred.
April 2000Flash FloodCisco-Heavy thunderstorm rains created street flooding in town.
May 1997Flash FloodCisco-Five inches of rain resulted in street flooding in town.
June 1995HailCisco-Flooding was reported in low lying areas with some people stranded in vehicles.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindCisco-Flooding was reported in low lying areas with some people stranded in vehicles.
April 2023HailCisco-no account filed
May 2015HailCisco-no account filed
April 2008HailCisco-no account filed
April 2007HailCisco-no account filed
May 2007HailCisco-no account filed
August 2003HailCisco-no account filed
March 2002HailCisco-no account filed
April 2002HailCisco-no account filed
February 2000HailCisco-no account filed
June 1998HailCisco-no account filed
February 1997Flash FloodCisco-no account filed
June 1997HailCisco-no account filed
March 1997Thunderstorm WindCisco-no account filed
March 1997HailCisco-no account filed
May 1996HailCisco-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindCisco-no account filed
May 1996HailCisco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Eastland 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
Mitchell5.3 miles9
Dothan6.3 miles8
Mangum7.9 miles12
Pleasant Hill8.2 miles13
Eastland8.6 miles13
Scranton8.9 miles9
Nimrod8.9 miles9
Punkin Center9.2 miles12

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 CiscoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980092The 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 1332853. 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.