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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 Tucumcari quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Tucumcari quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Wildorado quadrangle1:62500
- 1984 USGS Wildorado quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Vega quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2010Regional 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 use | 8 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2019 | Natural | 7.2 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LITTLE RIPPER |
| 4 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3,000 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DURRETT NORTH FIRE |
| 26 July 2017 | Natural | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BUSHLAND |
| 25 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILDORADO |
| 22 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CRETSINGER |
| 13 July 2019 | Other causes | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 45 EB NSR |
| 21 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | EYDON WAGNER COMBINE FIRE |
| 13 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 49 MM BARDITCH FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
46 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2003 | Hail | Wildorado | $20,000 | The windows of some houses were broken by the large hail. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wildorado | - | Time estimated by radar. Time corrected. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wildorado | - | Late report from Oldham County Emergency of downed powerlines, along TX Route 809 just south of Wildorado. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Wildorado | - | Estimated dime to quarter size hail falling at time of the report. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Wildorado | - | Golf ball size hail was reported 5 miles northeast of Wildorado. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Wildorado | - | 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 2013 | Hail | Wildorado | - | 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 2013 | Hail | Wildorado | - | 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wildorado | - | The KVII schoolnet mesonet two miles to the east-southeast of Wildorado recorded a thunderstorm winds gust of 59 mph. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wildorado | - | A trained spotter estimated the thunderstorm wind gust near Wildorado Texas. |
| June 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Wildorado | - | A wall cloud was reported also. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Wildorado | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Wildorado | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Everett | 6.9 miles | 6 | |
| Vega | 12.3 miles | 6 | |
| Landergin | 19.4 miles | 6 | |
| Tascosa | 21.0 miles | 6 | |
| Old Tascosa (historical) | 22.4 miles | 6 | |
| Boys Ranch | 22.4 miles | 6 | |
| Hollicott Crossing | 24.2 miles | 6 | |
| Adrian | 25.0 miles | 6 |
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 Wildorado | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8001483 | 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 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.




