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Fort Stockton, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fort Stockton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79735. The Survey maps it on the Fort Stockton West quadrangle. 8,466 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,972 feet above sea level.

Fort Stockton within Pecos County

On record in Fort Stockton

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Stockton grew from 8,283 to 8,466 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
20108,283
20208,466+183 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Fort Stockton between 2006 and 2014, burning about 27 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2

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
7 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGONZALES LOOP FIRE
5 March 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 March 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILSON WAY
9 February 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 January 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 January 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROONEY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pecos County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fort Stockton: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Bromine, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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
Adams QuarryLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone
Clayton Williams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Fort Stockton StationBromineProducerBrine
Fort Stockton StationBromineProducerBrine

Every working recorded in Pecos County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Stockton in 4 storm reports in 1995: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 1995HailFort Stockton$2,500,000An isolated thunderstorm produced up to baseball-size hail. The public reported golf ball-size hail covering the ground, as well as estimated winds of 85 mph. The downtown area was hit hard, along with residences on the south side of town. Many windows were broken out of cars and residences, and a roof of a downtown business collapsed. Trees up to 30 inches in diameter were also reported toppled by the storm.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindFort Stockton$50,000An isolated thunderstorm produced up to baseball-size hail. The public reported golf ball-size hail covering the ground, as well as estimated winds of 85 mph. The downtown area was hit hard, along with residences on the south side of town. Many windows were broken out of cars and residences, and a roof of a downtown business collapsed. Trees up to 30 inches in diameter were also reported toppled by the storm.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindFort Stockton$500SKYWARN HAM report of tree damage in the city (wind estimated).
June 1995HailFort Stockton-An isolated thunderstorm produced up to baseball-size hail. The public reported golf ball-size hail covering the ground, as well as estimated winds of 85 mph. The downtown area was hit hard, along with residences on the south side of town. Many windows were broken out of cars and residences, and a roof of a downtown business collapsed. Trees up to 30 inches in diameter were also reported toppled by the storm.

Every storm recorded in Pecos 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
Bodieville Colonia1.1 miles11
Little Mexico Colonia1.7 miles11
Alamo Ranchettes Colonia2.8 miles11
Guild4.3 miles11
Belding10.5 miles9
Baldridge16.5 miles8
Smith Place19.9 miles9
Chancellor20.9 miles9

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 Fort StocktonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979901The 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 1357597. 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.