Sarco, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Goliad South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77963. The Survey maps it on the Melo quadrangle. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

Sarco within Goliad County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Melo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Goliad quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Sarco between 2006 and 2020, burning about 746 acres in total. 1 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 burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	71 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BEE
17 August 2013	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2441
13 August 2012	Natural	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE-12 MILES SOUTH GOLIAD
11 August 2016	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	16-13
16 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 March 2011	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	03112011-WOOD RANCH
28 February 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	400 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	9300 FM2441
19 January 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Goliad 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
O'Donnell Place	5.8 miles	8
Melo	7.8 miles	8
Berclair	10.1 miles	7
Goliad	10.8 miles	8
Scurlock	12.6 miles	7
Riverdale	13.4 miles	7
Fannin	15.5 miles	7
Angel City	15.9 miles	7

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.

Wikidata item Q128713420

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 2034981. 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.