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Wickett, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Monahans census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79788. The Survey maps it on the Pyote East quadrangle. 422 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,667 feet above sea level.

Wickett within Ward County

Population over time

3 figures

Wickett fell from 455 to 422 between 2000 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
2000455
2010498+43 (+9%)
2020422-76 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

90 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Wickett between 2006 and 2018, burning about 821 acres in total. 9 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
Equipment and vehicle use46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Natural9
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2011Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service44
2 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service302
12 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service296
7 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ward 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 Wickett: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. 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
Mi-Vida Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Ward County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wickett in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2005: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
March 2000Tornado (F0)Wickett$300,000A supercell storm moving to the northeast spawned a weak tornado that moved straight north through the heart of Wickett. With the weak nature of the tornado and lack of targets outside of the city, the exact starting and ending points of the tornado could not be determined.Damage included one abandoned mobile home that was overturned and destroyed, several carports and other low-grade roofs dislodged, and utility poles/lines downed. With little structural damage to any substantial dwellings, this tornado was rated in the high end of the F0 category. Vectors into the center of the damage converged at a 90 degree angle.This mesocyclone quickly occluded after exiting Wickett, with the following mesocyclone producing another weak tornado in western Ector County.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWickett-The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts up to 60 MPH in Wickett. No damage was reported.
May 2001HailWickett-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindWickett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ward 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
Thorntonville4.3 miles8
Three Corner Windmill5.5 miles7
Monahans6.0 miles8
Pyote7.1 miles8
Royalty15.4 miles9
Grandfalls17.8 miles9
Barstow22.1 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 WickettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978213The 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 1371487. 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.