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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.

Geronimo within Guadalupe County

Population over time

3 figures

Geronimo 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.

YearPeople Change
2000619
20101,032+413 (+67%)
20201,097+65 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

60 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined34
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceI10 EAST
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH10 EAST 1
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH10 EAST 2
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH10EAST
3 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH10 AND 130
17 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOGALES FIRE
9 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCORDOVA GERONIMO FIRE
20 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service3560

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1999Thunderstorm WindGeronimo$30,000no account filed
April 2010HailGeronimo$2,000A 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 2022HailGeronimo-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 2018Flash FloodGeronimo-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing multiple low water crossings west of Seguin especially along Alligator Creek.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindGeronimo-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that blew down a barn door.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindGeronimo-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew down a cluster of large trees and damaged a sturdy pipe fence.
June 2015Flash FloodGeronimo-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding sending Geronimo Creek over Glenewinkel, Timmermann, and Laubach Rds. between Geronimo and Seguin.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindGeronimo-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph that downed numerous large tree limbs.
December 2012HailGeronimo-Pea to quarter sized hail.
April 2009Flash FloodGeronimo-Highway 123 was flooded in Geronimo.
March 1998HailGeronimo-Reported by Amateur Radio spotters.
March 2013HailGeronimo-no account filed
April 1996HailGeronimo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guadalupe 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
Lauback2.8 miles15
Barbarosa3.3 miles14
Clear Springs5.0 miles14
Camp Willow5.4 miles14
Lake Dunlap5.6 miles14
Weinert5.9 miles15
Galle5.9 miles15
Schumannsville5.9 miles14

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 GeronimoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977791The 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.