BlockBefore

Socorro, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the El Paso East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79927. The Survey maps it on the Ysleta quadrangle. 34,306 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,661 feet above sea level.

Socorro within El Paso County

On record in Socorro

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Socorro grew from 32,013 to 34,306 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
201032,013
202034,306+2,293 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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.

Storms near this place

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Socorro in 31 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 16 hail, 11 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 10 injuries. 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
September 2009HailSocorro10 hurt, $100,000,000Far east El Paso was hardest hit by this second supercell, with extensive golfball to possibly tennis ball size hail falling for 20 minutes. Thousands of automobiles were damaged, with several dealerships suffering much loss. Skylights were destroyed, roofs damaged and windows broken on thousands of buildings. Several injuries were reported from hailstones as well.
November 2016HailSocorro$300,000,000Supercell thunderstorms (very rare for November in this area) affected much of El Paso. The strongest, which actually weakened before moving into the United States, produced golf ball hail over far east El Paso into Horizon City. This caused record breaking insurance claims for a single hail event with a total of $200 million damage to vehicles and $100 million to homes. This doubled the previous record from 9-16-09. Flooding also occurred due to excessive hail amounts plugging up drains.
September 2009HailSocorro$20,000,000The supercell continued southeastward along I-10 for several miles. According to TxDOT, hundreds of vehicles along the interstate and other highways suffered extensive damage.
September 2009HailSocorro$10,000,000The supercell continued southeastward and dropped golfball size hail on El Paso's lower valley area.
July 2017Flash FloodSocorro$50,000Flooding was reported along Rio Vista, Coker and Thunder Roads in Socorro. Water threatened 17 homes with 15-20 people being forced to evacuate. A 4 inch gas line was exposed near Stockyard and Alyssa Roads due to washout.
September 2009Flash FloodSocorro$20,000Flash flooding affected far east El Paso. Reports from TxDOT included water covering State Highway 375 near Del Valle High School and wzter covering Montana Street east of Highway 375. Also, an arroyo overflow closed part of I-10 at Eastlake Boulevard.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindSocorro$20,000A roof was blown off of a house in Horizon City.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindSocorro$10,000Winds estimated at more than 60 mph downed numerous trees near Del Valle High School in El Paso's lower valley.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSocorro$5,000Report of a tree knocked down onto a trailer near Yarbrough and Alameda.
September 2008Flash FloodSocorro$5,000Horizon Boulevard below Horizon City was impassable to due rapidly moving water and debris. Floodwaters entered at least one home in the Sparks subdivision.
August 2007Flash FloodSocorro$5,000Two inches of rain fell within 30 minutes in Socorro. A couple of roads were closed and a home was flooded with knee-deep water.
July 2025Flash FloodSocorro-Flooding was reported in a strip mall parking lot on North Loop Drive north of Horizon Blvd with people playing in boats. Moderate street flooding was also reported along Socorro road about 2 miles northwest of Socorro.
June 2023HailSocorro-Social Media report, time estimated based on radar.
October 2015HailSocorro-Near Kanozo Road in Horizon City.
October 2015HailSocorro-Love's Truck Stop in Sparks off I-10.
July 2014Flash FloodSocorro-KFOX reported flooding in the Socorro area near Thunder and Rio Vista Drive. Streets near the intersection had to be blocked off. Some people had to wait for the water to recede to get to their homes.
August 2014Flash FloodSocorro-Reports of extensive street flooding with water well over the curbs at intersection of Rojas and Joe Battle.
July 2012Heavy RainSocorro-A weather spotter reported a total of .61 inches of rainfall in 23 minutes. This resulted in some minor street flooding in the area.
September 2011Flash FloodSocorro-Amateur radio reported 6 inches of water covering Darrington Street in Horizon City.
September 2010HailSocorro-Hail up to golf ball size was reported at the intersection of Interstate 10 and George Dieter.
October 2010HailSocorro-Dime sized hail was reported at Horizon Blvd. and Interstate 10.
April 2010HailSocorro-Golf ball size hail was reported in Horizon City by the Department of Public Safety.
July 2010Flash FloodSocorro-Flooding was reported at the intersection of Zaragoza and Rojas in El Paso.
June 2009Flash FloodSocorro-A slow moving thunderstorm produced nearly 2 inches of rain in a short time, resulting in flooded streets in the Horizon City area. Gateway West was closed in the Sparks subdivision.
June 2019HailSocorro-no account filed
November 2016HailSocorro-no account filed
October 2015HailSocorro-no account filed
October 2015HailSocorro-no account filed
September 2004Flash FloodSocorro-no account filed
August 2004HailSocorro-no account filed
June 1997HailSocorro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in El Paso 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
La Junta Addition Colonia0.2 miles18
Algodon Colonia0.2 miles18
Socorro Village Addition Colonia0.2 miles18
Adobe Colonia0.2 miles18
Spanish Trail Additon Colonia0.4 miles18
Frank Colonia0.4 miles18
Rio Vista Addition Colonia0.5 miles18
Buford View Estates Colonia0.5 miles18

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 SocorroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979579The 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 1388220. 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.

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.