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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.

Utopia within Uvalde County

Population over time

2 figures

Utopia 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.

YearPeople Change
2010227
2020225-2 (-1%)

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

34 since 2006

Regional 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUTOPIA ESTATES
19 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2008Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
27 August 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Uvalde County

Storms near this place

34 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1996Tornado (F2)Utopia1 hurt, $20,000no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindUtopia$20,000A 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 1999Thunderstorm WindUtopia$10,000Trees 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 1999Thunderstorm WindUtopia$8,000A trained spotter reported trees blown down and large limbs were knocked off trees.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindUtopia$5,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that damaged a roof and awning in Utopia.
June 2003Flash FloodUtopia$5,000Showers 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 2024Thunderstorm WindUtopia-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that knocked down multiple Mesquite trees just north of Utopia.
April 2021HailUtopia-A thunderstorm produced tennis ball size hail in Utopia.
May 2020HailUtopia-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Utopia.
May 2019HailUtopia-A thunderstorm produced one inch hail in Utopia.
May 2019HailUtopia-A thunderstorm produced one inch hail south of Utopia.
May 2019HailUtopia-A thunderstorm produced tennis ball size hail southwest of Utopia.
May 2016Flash FloodUtopia-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing several roads between Utopia and Sabinal.
May 2016Flash FloodUtopia-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing CR354 at Wolf Creek.
May 2015Flash FloodUtopia-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing RM 1050 west of Utopia.
May 2014Flash FloodUtopia-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding. FM187 was closed due to a flooded low water crossing.
March 2012HailUtopia-A thunderstorm produced hail from quarter to golf ball size in Utopia.
March 2012HailUtopia-A thunderstorm produced hail from pea to golf ball size west of Utopia.
May 2012Flash FloodUtopia-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that flooded low water crossings closing Highway 187 from Sabinal to Utopia.
March 2008HailUtopia-Quarter size hail was reported at Utopia on the River.
May 1997Tornado (F0)Utopia-Amateur Radio spotters relayed a report of a tornado sighted by a Sheriff's Deputy.
May 2016HailUtopia-no account filed
March 2013HailUtopia-no account filed
March 2012HailUtopia-no account filed
May 2009HailUtopia-no account filed
May 2009HailUtopia-no account filed
February 2005HailUtopia-no account filed
April 2001HailUtopia-no account filed
April 2001HailUtopia-no account filed
October 2001HailUtopia-no account filed
May 1999HailUtopia-no account filed
June 1997HailUtopia-no account filed
March 1997HailUtopia-no account filed
May 1997Funnel CloudUtopia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Uvalde 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
Waresville0.8 miles8
Long Crossing9.2 miles11
Magers Crossing10.8 miles8
Third Crossing11.3 miles8
Second Crossing11.4 miles8
Happy Hollow12.0 miles8
First Crossing12.8 miles12
Concan12.9 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 UtopiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969672The 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.