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Saint Jo, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the St. Jo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76265. It stands on Buck Branch. The Survey maps it on the Saint Jo quadrangle. 881 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,142 feet above sea level.

Saint Jo within Montague County

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Jo fell from 1,043 to 881 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,043
2020881-162 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

94 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Saint Jo between 1998 and 2019, burning about 34,323 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 were 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use18
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
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
22 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2011Natural100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMONTAGUE FIRE
3 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution80 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY LINE FIRE
23 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2013Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDIXON FIRE
20 August 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013-141
10 August 2008Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined800 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2382

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montague County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Saint Jo: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Nocona Rock Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Montague County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saint Jo in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 3 hail, 2 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1993HailSaint Jo$50,000There was extensive hail damage to fruit trees.
May 1993Tornado (F0)Saint Jo$5,000Brief tornado touchdown destroyed a barn and blew down a few trees.
May 1993Tornado (F0)Saint Jo-Brief tornado touchdown with no damage.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindSaint Jo-Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees near Saint Jo.
May 1995HailSaint Jo-no account filed
May 1995HailSaint Jo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montague 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
Gladys5.3 miles10
Bonita5.8 miles9
Dye7.0 miles10
Capps Corner7.5 miles9
Hardy8.2 miles10
Mallard10.3 miles10
Corinth10.3 miles9
Montague10.7 miles10

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 Saint JoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978860The 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 1367166. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.