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Paint Rock, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Eola-Paint Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76866. It stands on Hog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Paint Rock quadrangle. 237 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,631 feet above sea level.

Paint Rock within Concho County

On record in Paint Rock

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Paint Rock fell from 273 to 237 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
2010273
2020237-36 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

32 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Paint Rock between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,702 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution27 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHADLEY FIRE
20 September 2017Natural651 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSULTIEMIER RANCH
22 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFUZZY CREEK FIRE
9 July 2005Recreation and ceremony55 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2017Natural100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROCKY CREEK RANCH
6 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use70 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Concho County

Storms near this place

50 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paint Rock in 50 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 36 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
September 2012Flash FloodPaint Rock$150,000Law enforcement reported Highway 83 along the border of Runnels and Concho Counties was closed with four feet of water over the roadway. Concho County had about 14 to 15 miles of county roads washed away or severely damaged.
May 2005HailPaint Rock$25,000A nearly stationary thunderstorm continued to produce golfball size hail in Paint Rock, and caused damage to vehicles and homes.
May 2002HailPaint Rock$10,000Baseball size hail produced roof damage at Paint Rock.
May 1995HailPaint Rock$10,000no account filed
May 2005HailPaint Rock$5,000As golfball Size hail fell in Paint Rock for the past four minutes, the hail damaged windows and roofs.
May 2005HailPaint Rock$5,000Large hail fell in Paint Rock for a little over 30 minutes, and caused considerable damage.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindPaint Rock$3,000An apparent microburst ripped part of a tin roof off of a mobile home near the O.H. Ivie Reservoir in northeast Concho County.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindPaint Rock$500Downburst winds reached speeds of 67 mph at the NWS Office in San Angelo. Minor damage to roofs and tree limbs resulted. As the storm moved into Concho County, a cooperative observer reported winds in excess of 60 mph in Paint Rock. No significant damage was noted in Paint Rock.
March 2023HailPaint Rock-The public also reported dime to nickel size hail. The hail fell until 4:05 PM.
May 2017HailPaint Rock-Baseball size hail was reported by a trained spotter near Paint Rock.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindPaint Rock-A trained spotter reported numerous tree limbs down throughout Paint Rock. The largest limbs were up to 15 feet in length.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindPaint Rock-A trained spotter estimated 60 mph winds in Paint Rock.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindPaint Rock-An amateur radio operator estimated 60 MPH winds.
March 2008HailPaint Rock-Nickel size hail fell from 9:15 to 9:20 P.M.
May 2005HailPaint Rock-The supercell thunderstorm that had been over Paint Rock for the past several minutes started to move to the east southeast.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindPaint Rock-Large limbs were blown down in the community of Paint Rock.
May 2002HailPaint Rock-Golfball size hail fell from a supercell thunderstorm moving across Concho County.
June 2000Flash FloodPaint Rock-Ranch Road 380 just west of Paint Rock was closed when up to 3 inches of rain caused water to flow over the roadway.
May 1998Flash FloodPaint Rock-Highway 380 at Kickapoo Creek flooded and impassable
July 1995HailPaint Rock-The Matador Fire Department spotters reported a tornado one to two miles northwest of Flomot. The brief tornado touched down in an open area and did not cause any damage. In Coke County, the sheriff's office reported winds overturned two campers, slightly injuring two people. Hail destroyed young cotton crops near Rowena in Runnels County. An National Weather Service co-operative observer in Paint Rock reported dime-size hail.
May 1994HailPaint Rock-The public reported one-inch diameter hail at O.H. Ivie Lake. UTAH
May 2023HailPaint Rock-no account filed
May 2023HailPaint Rock-no account filed
May 2023HailPaint Rock-no account filed
May 2017HailPaint Rock-no account filed
April 2011HailPaint Rock-no account filed
March 2008HailPaint Rock-no account filed
March 2007HailPaint Rock-no account filed
May 2007HailPaint Rock-no account filed
April 2006HailPaint Rock-no account filed
April 2006HailPaint Rock-no account filed
May 2006HailPaint Rock-no account filed
May 2005HailPaint Rock-no account filed
May 2005HailPaint Rock-no account filed
November 2004Thunderstorm WindPaint Rock-no account filed
June 2003HailPaint Rock-no account filed
May 2002HailPaint Rock-no account filed
April 2000HailPaint Rock-no account filed
May 1998HailPaint Rock-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindPaint Rock-no account filed
June 1998HailPaint Rock-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPaint Rock-no account filed
March 1998HailPaint Rock-no account filed
March 1997HailPaint Rock-no account filed
March 1997HailPaint Rock-no account filed
March 1997HailPaint Rock-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindPaint Rock-no account filed
April 1996HailPaint Rock-no account filed
May 1995HailPaint Rock-no account filed
May 1995Tornado (F0)Paint Rock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Concho 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
Concho6.1 miles16
Lowake9.2 miles15
Henderson Chapel10.5 miles11
Millersview11.1 miles12
Eola11.7 miles11
Vick14.7 miles11
Eden20.5 miles11
Pasche23.6 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 Paint RockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981865The 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 1364698. 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.