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Scotland, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Archer City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76379. The Survey maps it on the Scotland quadrangle. 413 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

Scotland within Archer County

Population over time

2 figures

Scotland fell from 501 to 413 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
2010501
2020413-88 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

65 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Scotland between 2006 and 2020, burning about 23,320 acres in total. 14 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
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning14
Natural14
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking1

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
29 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLEMAN ROAD
8 August 2013Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLEMAN ROAD
7 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePENNARTZ AND PEYSAN RD FIRE
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2018Natural200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEMANN ROAD
4 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKINDER RD FIRE
2 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2020Natural50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKINDER ROAD GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Archer County

Storms near this place

46 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scotland in 46 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 36 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. 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
August 2013Thunderstorm WindScotland$5,000Numerous 4 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs down. Time estimated from radar.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindScotland$5,000A roof was blown off a two-story structure and one large tree was downed.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindScotland$3,000Shingles were blown off a house and some tree limbs were blown down. Monetary damages were estimated.
April 2026Tornado (EFU)Scotland$2,000Numerous spotters and chasers observed a tornado east of State Highway 79 and near Coleman Road. The tornado occurred over open pastureland with the only known damage occurring to some cattle feeders near Coleman Road. Much of the tornado path is estimated.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindScotland$1,000Large tree downed.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindScotland$500Power lines were downed.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindScotland$200Several tree limbs were blown down. Monetary damages were estimated.
April 2026Tornado (EFU)Scotland-Spotters observed a tornado northwest of Scotland. No damage was reported and the location of the tornado is estimated.
April 2026HailScotland-Maximum hail size increased from quarter to golf ball during the event time. The report was relayed through mPING.
April 2016HailScotland-Relayed through Twitter.
June 2004HailScotland-Hail was observed on Highway 172 near the Archer-Clay County line.
April 2020HailScotland-no account filed
May 2019HailScotland-no account filed
May 2017HailScotland-no account filed
April 2016HailScotland-no account filed
May 2014HailScotland-no account filed
May 2011HailScotland-no account filed
April 2008HailScotland-no account filed
April 2008HailScotland-no account filed
April 2008HailScotland-no account filed
April 2008HailScotland-no account filed
May 2008HailScotland-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindScotland-no account filed
May 2005HailScotland-no account filed
September 2005HailScotland-no account filed
April 2004HailScotland-no account filed
June 2004HailScotland-no account filed
June 2004HailScotland-no account filed
June 2004HailScotland-no account filed
June 2004HailScotland-no account filed
June 2004HailScotland-no account filed
November 2004HailScotland-no account filed
April 2003HailScotland-no account filed
May 2001HailScotland-no account filed
May 2001HailScotland-no account filed
May 1997HailScotland-no account filed
October 1997HailScotland-no account filed
September 1996HailScotland-no account filed
April 1995HailScotland-no account filed
June 1995HailScotland-no account filed
April 1994HailScotland-no account filed
May 1994HailScotland-no account filed
May 1994HailScotland-no account filed
May 1994Tornado (F0)Scotland-no account filed
June 1994HailScotland-no account filed
June 1994HailScotland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Archer 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
Luke Wilson5.8 miles9
Windthorst6.1 miles7
Archer City9.3 miles9
Lakeside City12.3 miles10
Dads Corner13.0 miles9
Hartex15.6 miles8
Anarene15.9 miles7
Holliday16.0 miles8

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 ScotlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972901The 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 1367871. 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.