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.
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
Municipal Power Plantlisted 1996- May-Hickey Houselisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresYoakum 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5,815 | |
| 2020 | 5,908 | +93 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Yoakum quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Cuero quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
29 since 2006Regional 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 burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OLD CUERO RD |
| 26 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1198 CR 323 |
| 20 July 2009 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD 293 |
| 22 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | STATE HWY 111 EAST |
| 20 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2017038 |
| 19 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 77A |
| 10 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 395 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petersville | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Pearl City | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Edgar | 7.2 miles | 10 | |
| Hochheim | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Terryville | 8.0 miles | 9 | |
| Concrete | 8.2 miles | 10 | |
| Steen | 8.8 miles | 10 | |
| Stratton | 9.4 miles | 10 |
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 Yoakum | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q979371 | 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 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.



