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.
Population over time
2 figuresLatexo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 322 | |
| 2020 | 232 | -90 (-28%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1951 USGS Grapeland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
192 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 127 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNKNOWN |
| 7 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WESLEY BRADLEY |
| 6 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2010253 |
| 4 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNKNOWN |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2011301 |
| 30 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 163 |
| 29 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UNKOWN |
| 28 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RIGHTMIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Latexo | $40,000 | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Latexo | $19,000 | no account filed |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latexo | $15,000 | An 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latexo | $15,000 | Roof blown off a house and trees down. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latexo | $5,000 | Trees were downed on FM 2022. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Latexo | $5,000 | Golfball sized hail was observed to the northwest of Crockett. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latexo | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in the Latexo area. |
| February 2001 | Hail | Latexo | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Latexo | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Latexo | $4,000 | Golfball sized hail was observed in Latexo. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latexo | $3,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds downed some trees in Latexo. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Latexo | $3,000 | Quarter size hail occurred in Latexo. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latexo | $3,000 | Guard shack at chemical plant blown over. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Latexo | $3,000 | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latexo | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a tree. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latexo | - | Trees were downed in the Latexo area. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Latexo | - | Quarter sized hail was reported near Latexo. |
| May 2017 | Flash Flood | Latexo | - | 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 2017 | Hail | Latexo | - | Quarter sized hail was reported between Latexo and Crockett. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latexo | - | Trees were blown down in severe thunderstorm winds near the town of Latexo. |
| April 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Latexo | - | A rotating wall cloud and a funnel cloud were sighted by multiple trained spotters. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Latexo | - | Nickel sized hail was observed in this thunderstorm. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Latexo | - | Nickel size hail was observed in Latexo. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Latexo | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oldham | 0.6 miles | 11 | |
| El Caney | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Nottingham Woods | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Druso | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Crockett | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Hays Spring | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Grapeland | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Germany | 7.2 miles | 12 |
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 Latexo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q979292 | 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 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.




