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.
Population over time
2 figuresSkidmore 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 925 | |
| 2020 | 863 | -62 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Skidmore quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Skidmore quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
175 since 2006Regional 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 burning | 76 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 55 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | TX 359 |
| 5 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FLORES |
| 27 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SULLIVAN ST. 2 |
| 25 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SULLIVAN ST. |
| 13 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | RIGHT - O - WAY |
| 13 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 509 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Skidmore | $15,000 | NWS 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 2021 | Flash Flood | Skidmore | $10,000 | Highway 359 was closed due to water over the road between Skidmore and Tynan. |
| November 2025 | Hail | Skidmore | - | A report from storm spotter near Skidmore. |
| July 2021 | Flood | Skidmore | - | 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 2021 | Flood | Skidmore | - | 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 2015 | Flash Flood | Skidmore | - | 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 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Skidmore | - | Spotter reported a funnel cloud near Skidmore. |
| March 2003 | Flash Flood | Skidmore | - | State Highway 359 between Skidmore and Tynan was flooded. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Skidmore | - | Silver Creek over C.R. 536 east of Papolote. |
| July 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Skidmore | - | Local police reported seeing several funnel clouds near Highway 359 between Tynan and Skidmore. |
| January 1998 | Hail | Skidmore | - | NWS spotter report of dime sized hail. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Skidmore | - | Spotter report of dime sized hail. |
| May 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Skidmore | - | Sheriff report of several weak funnel clouds across the area. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Skidmore | - | Sheriff report of debris covering highway 181 resulting from strong thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| February 1994 | Tornado (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 2009 | Hail | Skidmore | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Skidmore | - | no account filed |
| December 2002 | Hail | Skidmore | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Flash Flood | Skidmore | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Skidmore | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Flash Flood | Skidmore | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yougeen | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| River Oaks Number 2 Colonia | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Tynan | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Olmos | 7.1 miles | 11 | |
| Papalote | 7.2 miles | 9 | |
| Blue Berry Hill Colonia | 10.5 miles | 9 | |
| Salazar Heights Colonia | 10.6 miles | 9 | |
| Blue Berry Hill | 10.6 miles | 9 |
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 Skidmore | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q976727 | 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 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.





