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Yorktown, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Yorktown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78164. The Survey maps it on the Yorktown West quadrangle. 1,810 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

Yorktown within DeWitt County

On record in Yorktown

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Yorktown fell from 2,092 to 1,810 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
20102,092
20201,810-282 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

41 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Yorktown between 2006 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. 1 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
2 September 2017Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTAMI
8 August 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePETE DLUGOSCH PLACE
20 August 2017Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRYSTAL LUIS
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBARGMANN RESIDENCE CRESTVIEW
14 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceVFW POST 836
11 August 2018Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNEIMIER PROPERTY
5 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMICHAEL BERGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeWitt County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yorktown in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2003Thunderstorm WindYorktown$100,000Severe thunderstorm winds damaged roofs of homes and businesses and broke windows in homes and vehicles in Yorktown.
May 1994HailYorktown$50,000Sheriffs Office reports power lines down, trees uprooted and one house struck and set on fire by lightning. Nickle-sized hail fell one mile east of Yorktown near 1345 CST. Additional damage was reported between Cuero and Hocheim near 1415 CST.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindYorktown$30,000Downbursts between Yorktown and Westhoff blew over trees and knocked over power lines
May 2001Thunderstorm WindYorktown$30,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew several trees down and damaged fields in the Yorktown area.
August 2009LightningYorktown$20,000A lightning bolt struck the chimney at the rear of the St. Paul Lutheran Church.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindYorktown$10,000Trees were reported to have been blown down by severe thunderstorms north and northwest of Yorktown.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindYorktown$10,000no account filed
June 2025Flash FloodYorktown-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. There was water over Hwy 119 along with other low water crossings flooded near Smith Creek south of Yorktown.
May 2020Flash FloodYorktown-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing roads in and around Yorktown. CoCoRAHS observers reported 2.5 to 3.5 inches of rain in the area.
June 2020HailYorktown-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball size hail along Hwy 72 between Yorktown and Cuero.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindYorktown-Thunderstorms produced wind gusts estimated at 65 mph that blew down several trees and caused minor roof damage in Yorktown.
May 2011HailYorktown-A thunderstorm produced nickel to quarter size hail for 15 minutes.
July 2007Flash FloodYorktown-Rainfall in thunderstorms over DeWitt and Lavaca Counties averaged 2 to 3 inches, with up to 7 inches between Yorktown and Cuero. Flash flooding was widespread over the central part of the county with many rural roads closed. The Cuero Police Department reported that many of the streets in Cuero were also flooding.
July 2007Flash FloodYorktown-Spotty rain totals of 2 to 4 inches in central DeWitt County caused problems between Nordheim and Cuero. SH72 SH119, and FM240 were closed due to flash flooding.
August 2007Flash FloodYorktown-Showers and thunderstorms associated with Erin produced general 2 to 3 inch amounts across DeWitt, County. The highest rain totals were 5 inches between Nordheim and Yorktown. Several roads in the western part of the county were closed due to high water, including FM108 and SH119.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindYorktown-The Sheriff's Department reported that severe thunderstorms had blown down trees near Yorktown.
November 2004Tornado (F0)Yorktown-Skywarn-trained Amateur Radio Operators from the Yorktown area observed a small and short-lived tornado as it touched down near Yorktown. It struck in open country, then lifted back into the thunderstorm base and dissipated. No damage was indicated. The tornado was rated F0 on the Fujita Scale.
July 2005Funnel CloudYorktown-no account filed
March 2000HailYorktown-no account filed

Every storm 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
Cotton Patch6.0 miles8
Kubala Store6.1 miles10
Nordheim7.0 miles8
Gruenau7.1 miles10
New Davy7.8 miles10
Garfield9.0 miles11
Upper Meyersville9.3 miles7
Old Davy9.7 miles11

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 YorktownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977181The 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 1377672. 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.