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.
Population over time
2 figuresSaint 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,043 | |
| 2020 | 881 | -162 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1905 USGS Montague quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Saint Jo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
94 since 1998Regional 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 burning | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
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 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2011 | Natural | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MONTAGUE FIRE |
| 3 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 80 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY LINE FIRE |
| 23 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 August 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DIXON FIRE |
| 20 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2013-141 |
| 10 August 2008 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 800 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2382 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nocona Rock Co Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1993 | Hail | Saint Jo | $50,000 | There was extensive hail damage to fruit trees. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Saint Jo | $5,000 | Brief tornado touchdown destroyed a barn and blew down a few trees. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Saint Jo | - | Brief tornado touchdown with no damage. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saint Jo | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees near Saint Jo. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Saint Jo | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Saint Jo | - | 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.
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 Jo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q978860 | 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 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.





