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Perico, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Texline census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79087. The Survey maps it on the Perico quadrangle.

Perico within Dallam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Perico between 2008 and 2017, burning about 938 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMETCALF
12 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePERICO FIRE
1 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE TRAILER TIRE
1 July 2008Debris and open burning120 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceO- RANCH
25 May 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePRICO
22 May 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution760 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePERICO FIRE
28 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1879 & PERICO LN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallam County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perico in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 19 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPerico$35,000Video that was posted on social media shows a grain silo destroyed and laying across the south bound lane of Highway 87.
June 2025HailPerico$3,000no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPerico-Several tree limbs, 1 to 2 in diameter, were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2021HailPerico-Accumulating hail between pea and dime size, with larger stones up to ping pong ball noted. Area roadway is covered with hail.
June 2019HailPerico-Golf ball size hail reported by weather spotters in the area.
May 2016HailPerico-Golf ball size hail fell 15 miles south of Texline.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindPerico-A grain bin was damaged and irrigation pivots flipped near Highway 102 and McAdams, 17 miles south-southeast of Texline.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindPerico-A 63 mph wind gust was measured 15 miles west-southwest of Ware.
May 2016Tornado (EF1)Perico-Damage from this short track, small tornado included a destroyed grain silo, tree damage, a flipped center pivot irrigation system and minor roof damage to a farm house. This resulted in EF-1 rating with estimated peak winds of 87 mph.
April 2016HailPerico-Hail up to golf ball size fell 7 miles southeast of Texline.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPerico-Tree branches 4-6 inch diameter downed by strong wind gusts.
November 2015HailPerico-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported 10 miles south of Texline.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindPerico-Mobile home in transit was blown off the highway.
July 1994HailPerico-Hail up to golf ball-size was reported by TV meteorologist in Dallam County. The Sheriff's Office reported quarter-size hail near the community of Bootleg. A rancher reported thunderstorm winds blew a shed apart and toppled his windmill with damage estimated at $10K.
September 2023HailPerico-no account filed
May 2023HailPerico-no account filed
June 2019HailPerico-no account filed
April 2012HailPerico-no account filed
May 2010HailPerico-no account filed
May 2010HailPerico-no account filed
May 2010HailPerico-no account filed
August 2009HailPerico-no account filed
July 2009HailPerico-no account filed
October 2004HailPerico-no account filed
July 2000HailPerico-no account filed
June 1998HailPerico-no account filed
May 1994Tornado (F1)Perico-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallam 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
Corlena5.0 miles7
Thompson Grove10.0 miles7
Ware10.3 miles6
Bunker Hill10.4 miles6
Texline11.0 miles8
Windy Hill11.8 miles6
Bolin15.4 miles6
Buffalo Springs15.5 miles7

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 PericoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7168408The 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 1382479. 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.