Geronimo, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Seguin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78155. It stands on Alligator Creek. The Survey maps it on the Geronimo quadrangle. 1,097 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 581 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresGeronimo grew from 619 to 1,097 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 619 | |
| 2010 | 1,032 | +413 (+67%) |
| 2020 | 1,097 | +65 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1911 USGS San Marcos quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1919 USGS San Marcos quadrangle1:125000
- 1930 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Geronimo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
60 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Geronimo between 2006 and 2019, burning about 306 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/undetermined | 34 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | I10 EAST |
| 5 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | IH10 EAST 1 |
| 5 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | IH10 EAST 2 |
| 4 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | IH10EAST |
| 3 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | IH10 AND 130 |
| 17 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | NOGALES FIRE |
| 9 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CORDOVA GERONIMO FIRE |
| 20 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3560 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Geronimo in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geronimo | $30,000 | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Geronimo | $2,000 | A thunderstorm produced one and one quarter inch hail in Geronimo which dented a truck. It also produced one inch hail in and around Seguin. |
| November 2022 | Hail | Geronimo | - | A thunderstorm produced hail up to half dollar size off Huber Rd. in Geronimo. Most of the hail was half an inch in diameter. |
| March 2018 | Flash Flood | Geronimo | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing multiple low water crossings west of Seguin especially along Alligator Creek. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geronimo | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that blew down a barn door. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geronimo | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew down a cluster of large trees and damaged a sturdy pipe fence. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Geronimo | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding sending Geronimo Creek over Glenewinkel, Timmermann, and Laubach Rds. between Geronimo and Seguin. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geronimo | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph that downed numerous large tree limbs. |
| December 2012 | Hail | Geronimo | - | Pea to quarter sized hail. |
| April 2009 | Flash Flood | Geronimo | - | Highway 123 was flooded in Geronimo. |
| March 1998 | Hail | Geronimo | - | Reported by Amateur Radio spotters. |
| March 2013 | Hail | Geronimo | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Geronimo | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lauback | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Barbarosa | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Clear Springs | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Camp Willow | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Lake Dunlap | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Weinert | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Galle | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Schumannsville | 5.9 miles | 14 |
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 Geronimo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q977791 | The 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 1336502. 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.






