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Frio Town, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Pearsall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78061. The Survey maps it on the Frio Town quadrangle. It stands 627 feet above sea level.

Frio Town within Frio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

22 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Frio Town between 2005 and 2019, burning about 317 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
27 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use16 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLUGUNA
18 September 2015Debris and open burning12 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15828 W FM 140
24 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 57 COTTON FIELD 1
24 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 57, 2 MILES WEST OF FM 140
24 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 57 @ FM 140
24 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 57 & HWY 140
24 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1825 PR 1500
23 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 57 @ FM 140

Every fire recorded in Frio County

Storms near this place

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frio Town in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 14 hail, 6 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
November 2000Thunderstorm WindFrio Town$50,000Severe thunderstorm winds broke power poles in half.
October 2002Flash FloodFrio Town$20,000Scattered showers and thunderstorms reformed by the mid morning in an area from LaPryor to Batesville to Frio Town. These slow-moving showers and storms were producing rainfall at rates of an inch an hour, and accumulations by mid morning were approaching 3 inches. Isolated totals near Frio Town eventually reached 5 inches. The rain continued until just before noon, then ended. With soils wet from recent rainfall, flash flooding began in the late morning and continued until near noon.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindFrio Town$500The forman at the Rockhouse Ranch along FM 140 reported large tree branches down and a tree snapped in half.
April 2023HailFrio Town-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail southeast of Frio Town.
May 2020HailFrio Town-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail near the intersection of Hwy 57 and FM 140 southeast of Frio Town.
May 2017Flash FloodFrio Town-Thunderstorms stalled over Frio County producing as much as 10.02 inches of rain east-southeast of Frio Town. This led to flash flooding closing the intersection of FM140 and US57 near Elm Creek southeast of town.
May 2017HailFrio Town-A thunderstorm produced one inch hail at FM140 and US57 southeast of Frio Town.
August 2016Flash FloodFrio Town-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing various roads around the county.
April 2015Funnel CloudFrio Town-A thunderstorm produced a funnel cloud near Hwy 57 and CR 140.
March 2013HailFrio Town-A thunderstorm produced dime to golf ball size hail that dented some cars east of Frio Town.
July 2007Flash FloodFrio Town-General 2 to 3 inch rain amounts were received between Frio Town and Big Foot in the morning of July 29. Highest totals were near 8 inches in the Frio Town area. Flash flooding developed in the morning and continued into the mid afternoon, closing many roads in the area, including US57 and FM462.
July 2007Flash FloodFrio Town-Scattered thunderstorms produced general rain totals of 2 to 3 inches over Kinney, Uvalde, Zavala, Medina, and Frio Counties in the afternoon of July 3. Highest amounts in Frio County were 5 inches in the northwest part of the county and also near Pearsall. US57, FM140, and FM2779 closed.
May 2007Flash FloodFrio Town-Showers and thunderstorms through the late evening produced general 1 inch rainfall over northwest Frio County with isolated 3 inch totals near Pearsall. Several roads, including FM140 and FM1582, were closed due to flash flooding.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindFrio Town-Damage was spotty across the northern part of Frio County due to high winds. Trees were knocked over and large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2017HailFrio Town-no account filed
May 2013HailFrio Town-no account filed
March 2012HailFrio Town-no account filed
May 2006HailFrio Town-no account filed
May 2006HailFrio Town-no account filed
April 2006HailFrio Town-no account filed
April 2002HailFrio Town-no account filed
November 2000HailFrio Town-no account filed
February 1998HailFrio Town-no account filed
April 1996HailFrio Town-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Frio 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
Cude Crossing Windmill11.0 miles10
North Pearsall13.1 miles10
West Pearsall13.3 miles10
Frio Heights Colonia13.3 miles10
Alta Vista Colonia13.3 miles10
Pearsall14.1 miles10
Pearsall East Colonia15.1 miles10
Moore15.7 miles8

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 Frio TownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5504635The 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 1379809. 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.