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Sanco, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Robert Lee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76945. It lies near Durham Peak. The Survey maps it on the Sanco quadrangle.

Sanco within Coke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Sanco between 2006 and 2012, burning about 1,100 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined6
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
3 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePENTACOST N208
28 August 2012Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceD BAR
25 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined165 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEXXON RD
20 August 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 July 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFRIENDSHIP 2
26 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined750 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFRIENDSHIP RD, COKE
26 July 2011Natural74 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCWILLIAMS FIRE
4 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH 208 051001

Every fire recorded in Coke County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sanco in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2018: 3 hail. 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 2005HailSanco$8,000The hail damaged vehicles.
May 2018HailSanco-no account filed
May 2014HailSanco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coke 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
Robert Lee8.3 miles14
Edith8.6 miles8
Silver9.4 miles10
Fort Chadbourne12.4 miles13
Bronte14.9 miles15
Shawville16.1 miles15
Pecan Mott22.2 miles15
Tennyson22.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379016. 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.