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Cleo, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Junction Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76849. It stands on West Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elm Slough quadrangle.

Cleo within Kimble County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Cleo between 2008 and 2018, burning about 173 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning4
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
21 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011-98
18 August 2011Natural127 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOG FIRE
11 June 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010-35
10 June 2018Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service201851
23 April 2011Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011-40
17 March 2009Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2009-21
6 December 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Kimble County

Storms near this place

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleo in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 16 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2018FloodCleo$10,000,000Prolonged heavy rainfall continued to flood roads across Kimble County. This flooding damaged 324 miles of roads and several bridges.
July 2025Flash FloodCleo-Public reported 2 to 3 feet deep flood waters across RM 2291 in north-central Kimble County.
March 2024HailCleo-Public reported ping pong ball size hail.
May 2024HailCleo-Public reported on social media golf ball to tennis ball size hail just south of Cleo.
June 2023HailCleo-COOP observer reported half dollar size hail. There was mostly dime size hail falling for 2 hours.
May 2021HailCleo-The public reported hail up to golf ball size along Mile Marker 445 on I-10 west of Junction.
May 2021HailCleo-A rainfall observer reported golf ball to baseball size hail between Junction and Roosevelt.
May 2021HailCleo-The public reported golf ball to baseball size hail in Cleo in northern Kimble County.
May 2021HailCleo-The public reported baseball size hail along U.S. Highway 83 north of Junction. The very large hail broke several windows.
May 2021HailCleo-The public reported baseball size hail between Junction and Menard.
May 2016HailCleo-A trained spotter reported ping pong to golf ball size hail on the ground along U.S. Highway 83.
April 2015HailCleo-A coop observer reported golf ball size hail covering U.S. Highway 83 near the Menard and Kimble County line.
May 2013Flash FloodCleo-Ranch Road 2291 was closed at Bear Creek due to flooding.
March 2016HailCleo-no account filed
May 2014HailCleo-no account filed
May 2014HailCleo-no account filed
April 2011HailCleo-no account filed
April 2011HailCleo-no account filed
April 2011HailCleo-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindCleo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kimble 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
Junction9.6 miles9
Buck Hollow11.0 miles12
Roosevelt12.3 miles12
Yates15.0 miles8
London16.6 miles7
Segovia16.7 miles7
Wilson Place17.8 miles12
Telegraph19.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379558. 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.