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Peacock, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Aspermont South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79502. The Survey maps it on the Peacock quadrangle. It stands 1,877 feet above sea level.

Peacock within Stonewall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Peacock between 2005 and 2020, burning about 179 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None 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
Natural6
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
22 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2020Natural25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWERDELL MORGAN REKNDLE
21 July 2020Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWENDELL MORGAN
30 June 2006Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2006Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 June 2008Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 June 2008Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stonewall County

Storms near this place

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peacock in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 15 hail, 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2000HailPeacock$30,000no account filed
April 2019HailPeacock$20,000A tornadic supercell produced a long swath of severe hail ranging in size from quarters to as large as baseballs at times. Damage photos from social media indicated some cars sustained heavy damage, but damage to homes or other property was not known.
April 2003HailPeacock$15,000The Stonewall County Sheriff's Office reported golfball size hail.
June 2009HailPeacock$5,000A Peacock resident measured giant hail stones two and a half inches in diameter shortly before 19:00 CST. Given the rural nature of the area, damages were limited.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindPeacock$2,000A downburst carried the roof from an unoccupied mobile home.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPeacock-A swath of strong winds and damage associated with a rear flank downdraft occurred over a three county area. This swath of winds that caused damage in Dickens and Kent County ended approximately 13 miles southwest of Aspermont.
April 2020HailPeacock-A public report was received of half dollar size hail approximately five miles south of Peacock.
April 2019Tornado (EFU)Peacock-Multiple storm chasers documented a tornado drifting southeast near Peacock. This tornado did not cause any known damage as it remained over open land.
June 2018HailPeacock-Damage was not known.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Peacock-A storm chaser observed a very brief tornado over open land in far northwest Stonewall County. The only evidence of the tornado was a rotating column of dirt underneath a slowly-rotating cloud base.
April 2012HailPeacock-A swath of hail between 1 and 1.75 inches in diameter fell from 4E Jayton to 2S Peacock. No damage was reported.
July 2009HailPeacock-The public reported that between 1,500 and 2,000 acres of cotton were destroyed by large hail in the immediate Peacock vicinity during the 01:00 CST hour of the 19th. One local farmer described the damage left by the storm as the worst hail damage he remembered.
April 2006Tornado (F0)Peacock-Local law enforcement officials reported that a tornado developed beneath a rapidly intensifying severe thunderstorm over west-central Stonewall County. A deputy observed a high-based but well-developed funnel cloud. Dust was observed beneath the funnel, and the debris cloud was seen briefly connecting to the cloud base. The tornado quickly dissipated while remaining in open rangeland, and no damage resulted.
April 2015HailPeacock-no account filed
June 2010HailPeacock-no account filed
May 2005HailPeacock-no account filed
May 2004HailPeacock-no account filed
April 2003HailPeacock-no account filed
April 2002HailPeacock-no account filed
May 1998HailPeacock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stonewall 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
Oriana (historical)2.4 miles6
Double Mountain3.2 miles6
Swenson4.9 miles6
Aspermont9.7 miles8
Dorras13.0 miles6
Red Bluff Crossing13.4 miles15
Geneview13.7 miles7
Sandlin15.5 miles9

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 PeacockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7157728The 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 1364933. 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.