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DeCordova, Texas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Granbury East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76049. It stands on McCarthy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Acton quadrangle. 3,007 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 725 feet above sea level.

DeCordova within Hood County

Population over time

2 figures

DeCordova grew from 2,683 to 3,007 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
20102,683
20203,007+324 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 21 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

113 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of DeCordova between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,549 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined53
Debris and open burning30
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking5
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUTTERCUP CT.
27 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIDDEN COVE TRL.
26 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3900 RHEA CT.
25 September 2015Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRUBE COURT
16 September 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceM AND M RANCH RD.
1 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD GRANBURY ROAD
6 August 2012Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE LARGE BRU.
3 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hood County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of DeCordova: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cresson PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Hood 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
Acton1.2 miles21
Fall Creek3.2 miles21
El Tesoro3.6 miles21
Waples4.0 miles21
Pecan Plantation4.4 miles19
Mambrino4.7 miles19
Brazos Bend4.9 miles19
Granbury5.3 miles19

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 DeCordovaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982868The 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 1922767. 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.