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Skidmore, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Skidmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78389. The Survey maps it on the Skidmore quadrangle. 863 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 154 feet above sea level.

Skidmore within Bee County

Population over time

2 figures

Skidmore fell from 925 to 863 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
2010925
2020863-62 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

175 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Skidmore between 2006 and 2020, burning about 3,089 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Equipment and vehicle use25
Smoking11
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
6 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTX 359
5 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFLORES
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSULLIVAN ST. 2
25 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSULLIVAN ST.
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIGHT - O - WAY
13 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 509

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bee County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Skidmore in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 flash flood, 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud. 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
February 2013Thunderstorm WindSkidmore$15,000NWS storm survey concluded that a microburst with winds up to 70 mph impacted a narrow corridor through the central portion of the city of Skidmore. The axis of wind damage was concentrated near the intersection of U. S. Highway 181 and West Main Street. The perimeter fence of the high school baseball field was torn down. A portion of a roof was lifted off a home near North 7th Street and East Mathis Street, and a large tree limb as blown down on 2nd Street.
June 2021Flash FloodSkidmore$10,000Highway 359 was closed due to water over the road between Skidmore and Tynan.
November 2025HailSkidmore-A report from storm spotter near Skidmore.
July 2021FloodSkidmore-The Aransas River near Skidmore went into major flood during the morning of the 6th and crested at 24.3 feet during the early morning hours of the 7th.
July 2021FloodSkidmore-The Aransas River near Skidmore went into major flood again during the afternoon of the 8th and crested near 25 feet during the early morning hours of the 9th.
April 2015Flash FloodSkidmore-Heavy rainfall produced flooding of roads in the area between Skidmore, Tynan, and Papalote. Low lying areas along Aransas River were flooded. Water reached the bottom of the bridge on Corrigan Road near Skidmore.
October 2013Funnel CloudSkidmore-Spotter reported a funnel cloud near Skidmore.
March 2003Flash FloodSkidmore-State Highway 359 between Skidmore and Tynan was flooded.
July 2003Flash FloodSkidmore-Silver Creek over C.R. 536 east of Papolote.
July 2003Funnel CloudSkidmore-Local police reported seeing several funnel clouds near Highway 359 between Tynan and Skidmore.
January 1998HailSkidmore-NWS spotter report of dime sized hail.
May 1997HailSkidmore-Spotter report of dime sized hail.
May 1997Funnel CloudSkidmore-Sheriff report of several weak funnel clouds across the area.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindSkidmore-Sheriff report of debris covering highway 181 resulting from strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
February 1994Tornado (F0)Skidmore-A severe thunderstorm moving eastward across the county produced golf ball-sized hail, followed very quickly by a small and short-lived tornado. No one was injured and no significant damage was done by the tornado.
March 2009HailSkidmore-no account filed
April 2004HailSkidmore-no account filed
December 2002HailSkidmore-no account filed
October 1998Flash FloodSkidmore-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindSkidmore-no account filed
August 1996Flash FloodSkidmore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bee 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
Yougeen4.9 miles9
River Oaks Number 2 Colonia5.7 miles9
Tynan7.0 miles11
Olmos7.1 miles11
Papalote7.2 miles9
Blue Berry Hill Colonia10.5 miles9
Salazar Heights Colonia10.6 miles9
Blue Berry Hill10.6 miles9

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 SkidmoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q976727The 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 1347200. 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.