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Toco, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sumner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75421. The Survey maps it on the Toco quadrangle. 91 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 568 feet above sea level.

Toco within Lamar County

Population over time

2 figures

Toco grew from 75 to 91 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
201075
202091+16 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

106 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Toco between 2006 and 2019, burning about 972 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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 burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOOKING SMOKER
8 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 79 FIRE
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOOKING SMOKER 3
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOOKING SMOKER 2
7 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOPE5
4 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS-P.HART
3 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHED FIRE MAXEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar 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
Hopewell3.6 miles11
Brookston3.6 miles11
Ambia4.3 miles11
Paris4.8 miles11
Sumner6.1 miles11
High6.1 miles11
Atlas6.1 miles11
Maxey6.5 miles12

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 TocoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q935030The 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 1388611. 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.