Utopia, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sabinal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78884. The Survey maps it on the Utopia quadrangle. 225 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,362 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresUtopia fell from 227 to 225 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 | 227 | |
| 2020 | 225 | -2 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Utopia quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS San Antonio quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Utopia quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Bandera quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
34 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Utopia between 2006 and 2017, burning about 3,051 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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 | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | UTOPIA ESTATES |
| 19 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 27 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
34 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Utopia in 34 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 20 hail, 6 flash flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1996 | Tornado (F2) | Utopia | 1 hurt, $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utopia | $20,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 80 mph in Utopia. The winds knocked down a tree that blocked Jones Cemetery Rd. and damaged several houses in the area called Seco Ridge. Roofs, patio covers, and sheds were damaged. |
| March 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utopia | $10,000 | Trees were reported by a spotter to have been blown down in a 4 mile long path from just south of Utopia in Uvalde County into southern Real County. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utopia | $8,000 | A trained spotter reported trees blown down and large limbs were knocked off trees. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utopia | $5,000 | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that damaged a roof and awning in Utopia. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Utopia | $5,000 | Showers and thunderstorms over Edwards and Real Counties continued to spread southward through the early morning hours. Rainfall continued shortly past sunrise, with amounts of 1 to 2 to 3 inches over northern Uvalde County. Up to 4 inches of rain was reported in and around Garner Park, with several roads closed due to flash flooding. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utopia | - | A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down multiple Mesquite trees just north of Utopia. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Utopia | - | A thunderstorm produced tennis ball size hail in Utopia. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Utopia | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Utopia. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Utopia | - | A thunderstorm produced one inch hail in Utopia. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Utopia | - | A thunderstorm produced one inch hail south of Utopia. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Utopia | - | A thunderstorm produced tennis ball size hail southwest of Utopia. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Utopia | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing several roads between Utopia and Sabinal. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Utopia | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing CR354 at Wolf Creek. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Utopia | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing RM 1050 west of Utopia. |
| May 2014 | Flash Flood | Utopia | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding. FM187 was closed due to a flooded low water crossing. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Utopia | - | A thunderstorm produced hail from quarter to golf ball size in Utopia. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Utopia | - | A thunderstorm produced hail from pea to golf ball size west of Utopia. |
| May 2012 | Flash Flood | Utopia | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that flooded low water crossings closing Highway 187 from Sabinal to Utopia. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Utopia | - | Quarter size hail was reported at Utopia on the River. |
| May 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Utopia | - | Amateur Radio spotters relayed a report of a tornado sighted by a Sheriff's Deputy. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Utopia | - | no account filed |
| March 2013 | Hail | Utopia | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Utopia | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Utopia | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Utopia | - | no account filed |
| February 2005 | Hail | Utopia | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Utopia | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Utopia | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Utopia | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Utopia | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Utopia | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Utopia | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Utopia | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waresville | 0.8 miles | 8 | |
| Long Crossing | 9.2 miles | 11 | |
| Magers Crossing | 10.8 miles | 8 | |
| Third Crossing | 11.3 miles | 8 | |
| Second Crossing | 11.4 miles | 8 | |
| Happy Hollow | 12.0 miles | 8 | |
| First Crossing | 12.8 miles | 12 | |
| Concan | 12.9 miles | 12 |
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 Utopia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q969672 | 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 1349137. 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.




