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Pidcoke, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Evant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76528. It stands on Bee House Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pidcoke quadrangle.

Pidcoke within Coryell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

61 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Pidcoke between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,969 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
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1
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
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service529
5 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4650 CR 142
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSIERRA VISTA FIRE
27 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFORT HOOD FIRE
5 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4820 TABLE ROCK RD
5 August 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARVEY'S VALLEY RD FIRE
28 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service505
6 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5600 CR 142

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coryell County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pidcoke in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPidcoke$5,000Damage was reported to a property on Conder Road, approximately 8 miles southwest of Pidcoke. Large trees were uprooted, split, and damaged. Small outhouses were also overturned, and the skirting was removed off a manufactured home.
April 2008HailPidcoke$5,000Golfball-size hail covered the ground on Highway 116.
June 2023HailPidcoke$5,000no account filed
April 1996Tornado (F0)Pidcoke$4,000no account filed
September 2025Flash FloodPidcoke$2,000A social media photo showed Bee House Creek had completely flooded CR 142 west of Pidcoke with several feet of water.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPidcoke$2,000Trees were blown down.
June 2025Flash FloodPidcoke$1,000Cowhouse Creek at Pidcoke rose 16 feet in less than an hour.
May 2025HailPidcoke-Reported via mPing.
May 2024Flash FloodPidcoke-Cowhouse Creek at Pidcoke rose 10 feet in 40 minutes between 140 AM and 220 AM.
April 2023HailPidcoke-Amateur radio reported ping pong ball sized hail about a mile south-southwest of Pidcoke.
April 2017Flash FloodPidcoke-Coryell County Sheriff's Department reported that CR 142 near Pidcoke was flooded.
April 2017Flash FloodPidcoke-Law enforcement reported continued flooding in the Pidcoke area and southern Coryell County.
January 2020HailPidcoke-no account filed
February 2001HailPidcoke-no account filed
January 1995HailPidcoke-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coryell 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
Antelope Crossing2.4 miles15
Jackson Crossing3.4 miles15
Slater6.2 miles16
Topsey6.6 miles15
Saint Elijah Village6.6 miles15
Middle Crossing6.7 miles15
King7.1 miles17
House Crossing7.7 miles15

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 PidcokeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q120397752The 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 1365170. 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.