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Wildorado, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Vega census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79098. The Survey maps it on the Wildorado quadrangle. 201 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,924 feet above sea level.

Wildorado within Oldham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

13 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Wildorado between 2010 and 2020, burning about 3,300 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1

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
8 August 2019Natural7.2 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLITTLE RIPPER
4 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use3,000 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDURRETT NORTH FIRE
26 July 2017Natural50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUSHLAND
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDORADO
22 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRETSINGER
13 July 2019Other causes2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service45 EB NSR
21 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEYDON WAGNER COMBINE FIRE
13 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service49 MM BARDITCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oldham County

Storms near this place

46 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wildorado in 46 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 39 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2003HailWildorado$20,000The windows of some houses were broken by the large hail.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindWildorado-Time estimated by radar. Time corrected.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWildorado-Late report from Oldham County Emergency of downed powerlines, along TX Route 809 just south of Wildorado. Time estimated from radar.
July 2017HailWildorado-Estimated dime to quarter size hail falling at time of the report.
July 2015HailWildorado-Golf ball size hail was reported 5 miles northeast of Wildorado.
September 2014HailWildorado-A line of severe thunderstorms moved across Oldham County during the early afternoon hours of the 24th. As this line moved west of the town of Wildorado (Oldham County), a trained storm spotter reported quarter size hail (1.00 inch) four miles west of Wildorado (Oldham County). After producing this hail the line of storms continued moving southwestward across the county.
May 2013HailWildorado-A supercell thunderstorm that developed along a retreating dryline in Deaf Smith and Oldham Counties tracked to the northeast across the southern Texas Panhandle. A Wildorado (Oldham County) Police Officer reported golf ball size hail near the city of Wildorado. The supercell continued traveling in a northeastern direction which took it out of the county shortly after 10 pm. No injuries were relayed with this report.
May 2013HailWildorado-A supercell thunderstorm that developed along a retreating dryline in Deaf Smith and Oldham Counties tracked to the northeast across the southern Texas Panhandle. A trained storm spotter reported golf ball size hail near the town of Wildorado (Oldham County). The supercell continued traveling in a northeastern direction which took it out of the county shortly after 10 pm. No injuries were relayed with this report.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindWildorado-The KVII schoolnet mesonet two miles to the east-southeast of Wildorado recorded a thunderstorm winds gust of 59 mph.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWildorado-A trained spotter estimated the thunderstorm wind gust near Wildorado Texas.
June 2005Funnel CloudWildorado-A wall cloud was reported also.
June 2025HailWildorado-no account filed
June 2023HailWildorado-no account filed
May 2021HailWildorado-no account filed
May 2021HailWildorado-no account filed
May 2021HailWildorado-no account filed
May 2021HailWildorado-no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWildorado-no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWildorado-no account filed
April 2012HailWildorado-no account filed
April 2012HailWildorado-no account filed
June 2012HailWildorado-no account filed
June 2012HailWildorado-no account filed
June 2009HailWildorado-no account filed
June 2009HailWildorado-no account filed
July 2009HailWildorado-no account filed
June 2009HailWildorado-no account filed
May 2008HailWildorado-no account filed
June 2005HailWildorado-no account filed
June 2005HailWildorado-no account filed
June 2005HailWildorado-no account filed
June 2005HailWildorado-no account filed
June 2005HailWildorado-no account filed
June 2004HailWildorado-no account filed
July 2004HailWildorado-no account filed
May 2003HailWildorado-no account filed
June 2003HailWildorado-no account filed
June 2003HailWildorado-no account filed
May 2001HailWildorado-no account filed
September 1999HailWildorado-no account filed
May 1999HailWildorado-no account filed
June 1999HailWildorado-no account filed
June 1995HailWildorado-no account filed
June 1994HailWildorado-no account filed
June 1994HailWildorado-no account filed
April 1993HailWildorado-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oldham 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
Everett6.9 miles6
Vega12.3 miles6
Landergin19.4 miles6
Tascosa21.0 miles6
Old Tascosa (historical)22.4 miles6
Boys Ranch22.4 miles6
Hollicott Crossing24.2 miles6
Adrian25.0 miles6

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 WildoradoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8001483The 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 1371534. 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.