BlockBefore

Yoakum, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Yoakum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77995. It stands on Roundhouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Yoakum quadrangle. 5,908 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 364 feet above sea level.

Yoakum within DeWitt County

On record in Yoakum

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Yoakum grew from 5,815 to 5,908 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
20105,815
20205,908+93 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

29 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Yoakum between 2006 and 2017, burning about 70 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 July 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD CUERO RD
26 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1198 CR 323
20 July 2009Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 293
22 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTATE HWY 111 EAST
20 May 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 March 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2017038
19 March 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 77A
10 March 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 395

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeWitt 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
Petersville3.8 miles9
Pearl City5.2 miles9
Edgar7.2 miles10
Hochheim7.6 miles10
Terryville8.0 miles9
Concrete8.2 miles10
Steen8.8 miles10
Stratton9.4 miles10

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 YoakumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979371The 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 1377671. 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.