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Comanche, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Comanche census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76442. It stands on Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Comanche quadrangle. 4,211 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,381 feet above sea level.

Comanche within Comanche County

On record in Comanche

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Comanche fell from 4,335 to 4,211 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
20104,335
20204,211-124 (-3%)

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

65 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Comanche between 2006 and 2018, burning about 5,875 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning15
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service850 CR 408
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6100 HWY 2318 COMANCHE
20 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
10 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceINDIAN CREEK
5 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILLINGHAM FIRE
24 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceW HWY 67/377
17 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDUDLEY HILL
11 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHURST 304

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Storms near this place

60 of 85 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Comanche in 85 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 41 hail, 25 thunderstorm wind, 15 flash flood, 2 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
June 2007FloodComanche$300,000CR 396 was impassable due to high water. Numerous other county roads were damaged by flood waters and closed.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindComanche$80,000The Comanche County Sheriff's Office reported a roof blown off of a building in Comanche. This same storm damaged several transformers, power lines and significant tree damage.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindComanche$45,000Complete roof loss on a building in downtown. Also a metal shed on Highway 6 was destroyed.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindComanche$40,000A downburst blew a chicken house away, did roof damage to a barn, and blew windows out.
October 2008Thunderstorm WindComanche$25,000Large tree limbs were blown onto vehicles and power lines. A large tree was blown down at the intersection of College Avenue and North Lane Street.
June 2007Heavy RainComanche$20,000A railroad train derailed after heavy rains caused portions of the track to wash out. Four cars fell over and the line had to be shut down.
April 2011HailComanche$20,000no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindComanche$20,000no account filed
April 2021Thunderstorm WindComanche$15,000Tree damage was reported in and around Comanche. Some business signs and carports were also damaged.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindComanche$15,000Large oak trees were snapped approximately 2/3 of the way up and an outbuilding was blown away.
August 2004Flash FloodComanche$10,000Highway 36, FM 1476, and Highway 16 in and around Comanche were impassable due to high water in low lying areas. Some homes were also flooded.
April 2021LightningComanche$5,000Lightning damaged several lift station pumps for the City of Comanche.
June 2009Flash FloodComanche$5,000Some homes and businesses were flooded in Comanche. Indian Creek overflowed its banks around South Houston Street covering the road with a few feet of water.
June 2009HailComanche$5,000A trained spotter reported Golfball size hail 1 mile west of Comanche.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindComanche$5,000Power lines down in the Hasse area.
April 2011HailComanche$2,000Ping pong ball sized hail was reported 8 miles northwest of Comanche.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindComanche$1,000A large tree was down across a county road south of Comanche.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindComanche$500Large tree limbs were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindComanche$500Thunderstorm winds uprooted trees in Comanche.
May 2018HailComanche-Baseball size hail reported 1 mile SSW of Comanche.
April 2017HailComanche-Comanche County Sheriff's Department reported quarter sized hail in the city of Comanche.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindComanche-Amateur radio reported a 60 MPH wind gust approximately 1 mile northwest of Comanche, TX.
July 2015Flash FloodComanche-Comanche County Sheriff's Department reported that Farm to Market Road 3200 was nearly impassable due to high water.
March 2014HailComanche-Quarter sized hail was reported in Comanche.
April 2011HailComanche-Quarter sized hail was reported 17 miles northwest of Comanche.
June 2009HailComanche-Nickel size hail was reported in Comanche.
June 2009HailComanche-Golfball size hail was reported 1 mile west of the city of Comanche.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindComanche-A 60 MPH wind gust was measured at the Comanche County Sheriff's Office.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindComanche-Relayed by Comanche County Sheriff.
March 2007Flash FloodComanche-Flooding reported on CR 341 and CR 328. Both roads were closed. The city park was also evacuated due to flooding.
June 2007Flash FloodComanche-Several spots on Highway 36 were flooded, as was FM 2318 and FM 587 near DeLeon.
June 2007FloodComanche-Flooding continued from previous rains on FM 1447 north of Sidney.
May 2006HailComanche-Quarter-size hail reported at Sipe Springs.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindComanche-60 MPH wind gust measured in town.
March 2005HailComanche-Nickel size hail in Sydney.
March 2005HailComanche-Sheriff's dispatcher relayed several reports of pea to nickel size hail between Comanche and DeLeon.
March 2005HailComanche-Nickel size hail reported in Gustine.
March 2002HailComanche-Occurred on the east side of town.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindComanche-Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2000Flash FloodComanche-Highway 16 and Highway 36, between Comanche and Gustine, was flooded due to heavy rain from thunderstorms.
June 1997Flash FloodComanche-Several roads throughout the county were reported flooded.
June 1997Flash FloodComanche-Numerous roads throughout the county were flooded and closed.
June 1997Flash FloodComanche-Numerous roads remained closed due to flooding.
June 1997Flash FloodComanche-Numerous roads remained closed due to flooding.
May 1997Flash FloodComanche-Several roads in and around town were flooded by high water.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindComanche-A downburst blew a chicken house away, did roof damage to a barn, and blew windows out.
May 1995HailComanche-A downburst blew a chicken house away, did roof damage to a barn, and blew windows out.
October 1993HailComanche-Highway 587 just west of DeLeon was closed due to high water.
April 2016HailComanche-no account filed
April 2014HailComanche-no account filed
April 2011HailComanche-no account filed
April 2007HailComanche-no account filed
April 2007Thunderstorm WindComanche-no account filed
April 2007HailComanche-no account filed
April 2007HailComanche-no account filed
April 2006HailComanche-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindComanche-no account filed
December 2004HailComanche-no account filed
April 2004HailComanche-no account filed
June 2004HailComanche-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Comanche 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
Gartman View3.5 miles13
Vandyke5.6 miles13
Hasse6.7 miles14
Watson6.8 miles13
Sidney7.9 miles13
Newburg8.8 miles13
Fleming9.1 miles13
Downing9.2 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 ComancheAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981306The 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 1333168. 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.