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Tokio, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Brownfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79316. The Survey maps it on the Brownfield West quadrangle. It stands 3,307 feet above sea level.

Tokio within Terry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

46 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Tokio between 2005 and 2015, burning about 375 acres in total. None 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
Smoking16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 August 2011Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service385 AND DAVID BAILEY
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2011Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2 SOUTH ON FM 403
12 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service811 N CEDAR
10 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLUBBOCK AND ROSS
22 June 2011Smoking2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service401 N CUB ST.
15 June 2006Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Terry County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tokio: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sodium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brownfield PlantSodiumProducer

Every working recorded in Terry County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tokio in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 13 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2015Thunderstorm WindTokio$200,000Xcel Energy reported eleven 69 kV transmission poles toppled from the intersection of US Highway 380 and Farm-to-Market Road 1780 south for about two miles. Lyntegar Electric CO-OP reported one distribution pole was down just south of this swath.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindTokio$25,000Law enforcement officials reported that thunderstorm winds downed several utility poles in Tokio.
October 2010HailTokio$10,000A long-lived supercell thunderstorm produced a swath of destructive hail across much of western and northern Terry County between 15:05 CST and 16:10 CST. The public initially reported large hail that ranged in size from quarters to golfballs in Tokio at 15:05 CST. Very large hail stones were subsequently reported by storm chasers and law enforcement in the immediate Tokio area. Hailfall and its parent storm continued to move northeastward during the next hour, resulting in extensive damage to approximately 40,000 acres of mature cotton crops. By 16:05 CST quarter size hail was reported in Meadow, where hailstones increased to the size of golfballs by 16:10 CST. A Texas Department of Public Safety cruiser was severely damaged by the hail along U.S. Highway 62/82 near Meadow. No injuries were reported.
April 2015FloodTokio$10,000no account filed
June 2025HailTokio-Local broadcast media relayed a report of quarter size hail in Tokio.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTokio-Law enforcement reported that a semi truck was blown over about 15 miles west of Brownfield along Highway 82. It was not known if the driver was injured.
October 2010HailTokio-Storm chasers and law enforcement officials reported tennis ball size hail along U.S. Highway 380 near Tokio. The very large hailstones were accompanied by more numerous quarter to golfball size stones. The giant hail contributed to locally intense damage to approximately 5,000 acres of cotton.
March 2007HailTokio-A line of severe thunderstorms produced a swath of large hail that ranged from penny size to golfball size. Golfball size hail was initially reported near Tokio at 21:22 CST. Golfball size hail also was reported near Gomez at 21:55 CST. Emergency management officials reported that hail covered a secondary roadway just north of U.S. Highway 380 between Tokio and Gomez, but no damage was reported. As the line of storms continued eastward, penny size hail was reported in Brownfield by 22:00 CST.
September 2006HailTokio-A severe thunderstorm propagated eastward out of Yoakum County around 19:00 CST. Local farmers reported that large hail up to the size of quarters damaged cotton crops along a swath from the Yoakum and Terry County line northwest of Tokio, to five miles north of Tokio. Newspaper articles reported that the hail knocked leaves off of many cotton plants.
September 2003HailTokio-Hail destroyed an estimated 2500 acres of cotton in western Terry County.
April 2004HailTokio-no account filed
April 2004HailTokio-no account filed
June 2003HailTokio-no account filed
April 2002HailTokio-no account filed
June 2000HailTokio-no account filed
March 2000HailTokio-no account filed
June 1999HailTokio-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindTokio-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Terry 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
Brownfield0.0 miles8
Lahey5.1 miles8
Gomez5.4 miles7
Foster8.1 miles8
Needmore10.4 miles8
Union10.4 miles7
Johnson10.5 miles7
Meadow11.3 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 TokioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7813597The 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 1380669. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.