Quemado, Texas
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Quemado census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78877. The Survey maps it on the Quemado East quadrangle. 162 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 784 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresQuemado fell from 230 to 162 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 230 | |
| 2020 | 162 | -68 (-30%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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.
- 1940 USGS Quemado quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Eagle Pass quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Eagle Pass quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Eagle Pass quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Quemado in 2008, burning about 105 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 February 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 February 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 February 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 February 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quemado in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 16 hail, 8 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2004 | Flash Flood | Quemado | $2,000,000 | Heavy rain over the central part of Maverick County from Quemado to Eagle Pass to El Indio caused severe flash flooding. Rainfall varied generally from 2 to 3 inches, with up to 6 inches in the city of Eagle Pass. Nearly 50 homes were evacuated in the northern part of Eagle Pass around 0500 CST, with some four dozen persons being taken to shelters as a result of the flooding. Several high water rescues were performed in Eagle Pass as flash flooding closed city and rural streets alike. In addition to the house damage, fences were destroyed and an in-ground swimming pool was lifted out of its bed and floated onto a playground. Among the flooded-out roads were SH277 and FM1021. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Quemado | $1,000,000 | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding in and around Quemado. Houses were flooded in Quemado and FM 1908 east of the town was closed due to flooding. In the Quemado area, 1 house had major damage while 35 others reported minor damage. Similar numbers were reported around the Elm Creek area. The State of Texas reported that over 60 tons of debris was removed out of the Quemado and Elm Creek subdivisions. Some roads remained closed for days while repairs were made. Total estimates of loss are over 1 million dollars with regards to home and road repair, along with debris removal efforts. |
| March 2002 | Hail | Quemado | $100,000 | Large hail, propelled by winds of 35 to 40 knots, damaged roofs and knocked over trees in the Quemado area. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quemado | $100,000 | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Quemado | $50,000 | The Maverick County Sheriff's Department reported that some vehicles had been damaged by the large hail in the Quemado area. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Quemado | $20,000 | Damage was reported to homes from the hail. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Quemado | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing FM 1908 at the Maverick County Canal east of Quemado. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Quemado | - | A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Quemado. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Quemado | - | Border patrol in Quemado reported quarter sized hail. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Quemado | - | Thunderstorms in Maverick County and northwestern Dimmit County dropped 3 to 4 inches of rain, with up to 5 inches 25 NE Eagle Pass near the Zavala County line. FM481 and SH131 were closed. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Quemado | - | Thunderstorms over northern Maverick County produced general 3 to 4 inch totals. The resulting flash flooding closed SH131. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Quemado | - | Thunderstorms dropped between 4 and 6 inches of rain in the Normandy area. Flash flooding closed SH131 and FM1908. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Quemado | - | Between 3 and 5 inches east of rain fell from east of Spofford southward to near Normandy in Maverick County. SH131 and FM1908 were closed in Maverick County due to flash flooding. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Quemado | - | Up to 3 inches of rain fell in the mid afternoon in the area around Quemado and Normandy. Flash flooding closed FM1908 northeast of Quemado and SH131 east of Normandy. |
| March 1995 | Hail | Quemado | - | In addition to the large hail, two to three inches of rain was reported in both Eagle Pass and Quemado. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Quemado | - | Motorist reported one to 1.00 and 1.50 inch hail on the highway between Eagle Pass and Quemado at 1930CDT. Additional large hail was reported just east of Quemado on highway 131 later that evening. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Quemado | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Quemado | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Quemado | - | no account filed |
| March 2013 | Hail | Quemado | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Quemado | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Quemado | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Quemado | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Hail | Quemado | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Quemado | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normandy | 3.0 miles | 5 | |
| Airport Addition Colonia | 7.3 miles | 6 | |
| Paloma | 11.4 miles | 6 | |
| Darling | 12.3 miles | 6 | |
| Elm Creek Number 2 Colonia | 13.4 miles | 6 | |
| Elm Creek Number 1 Colonia | 13.6 miles | 6 | |
| South Elm Creek Number 4 Colonia | 13.7 miles | 6 | |
| South Elm Creek Number 3 Colonia | 13.7 miles | 6 |
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 Quemado | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q969251 | 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 1365897. 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.



