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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1968 USGS Peacock quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Aspermont quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 2005Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 July 2020 | Natural | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WERDELL MORGAN REKNDLE |
| 21 July 2020 | Natural | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WENDELL MORGAN |
| 30 June 2006 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2006 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 June 2008 | Natural | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 June 2008 | Natural | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2000 | Hail | Peacock | $30,000 | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Hail | Peacock | $20,000 | A 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 2003 | Hail | Peacock | $15,000 | The Stonewall County Sheriff's Office reported golfball size hail. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Peacock | $5,000 | A 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peacock | $2,000 | A downburst carried the roof from an unoccupied mobile home. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peacock | - | 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 2020 | Hail | Peacock | - | A public report was received of half dollar size hail approximately five miles south of Peacock. |
| April 2019 | Tornado (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 2018 | Hail | Peacock | - | Damage was not known. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (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 2012 | Hail | Peacock | - | A swath of hail between 1 and 1.75 inches in diameter fell from 4E Jayton to 2S Peacock. No damage was reported. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Peacock | - | 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 2006 | Tornado (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 2015 | Hail | Peacock | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Peacock | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Peacock | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Peacock | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Peacock | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Peacock | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Peacock | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oriana (historical) | 2.4 miles | 6 | |
| Double Mountain | 3.2 miles | 6 | |
| Swenson | 4.9 miles | 6 | |
| Aspermont | 9.7 miles | 8 | |
| Dorras | 13.0 miles | 6 | |
| Red Bluff Crossing | 13.4 miles | 15 | |
| Geneview | 13.7 miles | 7 | |
| Sandlin | 15.5 miles | 9 |
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 Peacock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7157728 | 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 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.


