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Pacio, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cooper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75450. The Survey maps it on the Charleston quadrangle.

Pacio within Delta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

21 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Pacio between 2005 and 2018, burning about 314 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
25 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1202 & FM 895
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY.19
6 August 2006Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2018Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURKHART GRASS FIRE
15 August 2018Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 198 W
24 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2016121
27 June 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pacio in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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
May 1995HailPacio-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
Vasco2.6 miles8
Prattville2.7 miles8
Lake Creek2.8 miles8
East Delta3.0 miles8
Charleston3.1 miles8
Post Oak4.1 miles8
Mount Joy5.2 miles8
Mount Joy Crossing5.4 miles8

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 PacioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q129078327The 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 1380320. 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.