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Ganado, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Ganado census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77962. It stands on Devers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ganado quadrangle. 1,975 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 66 feet above sea level.

Ganado within Jackson County

Population over time

3 figures

Ganado grew from 1,915 to 1,975 between 2000 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
20001,915
20102,003+88 (+5%)
20201,975-28 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Ganado between 2010 and 2018, burning about 90 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
Debris and open burning1

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
4 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM710
17 February 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR205
28 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAURITZ FIRE
17 January 2013Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1300
16 January 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service59NB

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ganado in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 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
July 2000HailGanado$50,000no account filed
May 2011HailGanado$30,000Windows were broken out on vehicles, houses and an apartment complex due to tennis ball size hail.
May 2006Flash FloodGanado$20,000Street flooding with water entering some buildings.
March 2002HailGanado$20,000no account filed
December 2002HailGanado$15,0002.75 inch hail in Ganado.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindGanado$10,000Utility poles and trees blown down
April 2019Thunderstorm WindGanado$9,000There was some roof and tree damage.
June 2004HailGanado$5,000no account filed
December 1996Flash FloodGanado$5,000no account filed
June 2004HailGanado$3,000no account filed
February 1999HailGanado$3,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGanado$1,000A strong wind gust was measured near Ganado.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindGanado$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a power pole.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGanado-Tree and power lines were downed in the Ganado area.
May 2021Flash FloodGanado-FM 1157 was impassable due to floodwaters between CR-208 and CR-215. The road was closed.
July 2021Flash FloodGanado-Numerous roads were closed across Jackson County after floodwaters made travel impossible.
June 2011HailGanado-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail mixed in with a lot of penny size hail.
July 2003Funnel CloudGanado-Numerous funnel clouds along US 59.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
White Hall5.7 miles8
Manson6.3 miles9
Edna8.2 miles10
Cordele9.0 miles8
Mount Olive9.8 miles8
Matilda10.4 miles10
Red Bluff10.6 miles9
El Toro12.0 miles10

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 GanadoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982520The 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 1357846. 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.