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Latexo, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Crockett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75849. The Survey maps it on the Grapeland quadrangle. 232 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 397 feet above sea level.

Latexo within Houston County

Population over time

2 figures

Latexo fell from 322 to 232 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
2010322
2020232-90 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Latexo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,540 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 3 were 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
Debris and open burning127
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
7 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWESLEY BRADLEY
6 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010253
4 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2011301
30 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 163
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKOWN
28 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIGHTMIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Latexo in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 12 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
April 1997Tornado (F1)Latexo$40,000no account filed
March 2005HailLatexo$19,000no account filed
February 2026Thunderstorm WindLatexo$15,000An emergency manager reported that three structures sustained roof damage along FM 229. A nearby wind gust of 57 mph was also reported around this time.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindLatexo$15,000Roof blown off a house and trees down.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindLatexo$5,000Trees were downed on FM 2022.
April 2009HailLatexo$5,000Golfball sized hail was observed to the northwest of Crockett.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLatexo$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in the Latexo area.
February 2001HailLatexo$5,000no account filed
April 1996HailLatexo$5,000no account filed
April 2009HailLatexo$4,000Golfball sized hail was observed in Latexo.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindLatexo$3,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed some trees in Latexo.
April 2011HailLatexo$3,000Quarter size hail occurred in Latexo.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindLatexo$3,000Guard shack at chemical plant blown over.
May 2002HailLatexo$3,000no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindLatexo$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLatexo-Trees were downed in the Latexo area.
May 2020HailLatexo-Quarter sized hail was reported near Latexo.
May 2017Flash FloodLatexo-High rainfall accumulation from slow moving storms lead to the flooding of numerous streets within Crockett. There were multiple road closures in and around Crockett. Sections of 4th and 6th streets, East Goliad, the East and South Loop, Highway 19 south and Highway 7 east were some of the reported road closures due to inundating flood water.
April 2017HailLatexo-Quarter sized hail was reported between Latexo and Crockett.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLatexo-Trees were blown down in severe thunderstorm winds near the town of Latexo.
April 2010Funnel CloudLatexo-A rotating wall cloud and a funnel cloud were sighted by multiple trained spotters.
April 2010HailLatexo-Nickel sized hail was observed in this thunderstorm.
September 2009HailLatexo-Nickel size hail was observed in Latexo.
April 2004HailLatexo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Oldham0.6 miles11
El Caney3.4 miles11
Nottingham Woods3.9 miles10
Druso5.3 miles10
Crockett5.4 miles10
Hays Spring6.0 miles9
Grapeland6.7 miles11
Germany7.2 miles12

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 LatexoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979292The 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 1360972. 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.