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Hardeman County, Texas

31 topographic sheets cover 15 settlements here, and 2 properties are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Research this county

From the record

2 National Register listings published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Texas within the United States
Hardeman County within Texas
Explore by year 1880 1891

What the record shows

  • 151 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
  • 2 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 1 district and 1 building.
  • 1 of the 2 listings was added during the 1970s.
  • The Geographic Names Information System records 15 populated places in this county; 15 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

2

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph PropertyType ListedReference
Quanah Commercial Historic Districtdistrict200000000475
Quanah, Acme and Pacific Depotbuilding197979002951

Bird's-eye views and land ownership maps

2

Drawn when these were printed as single large sheets: the town seen from the air, and the county divided into its farms with every owner named. Each opens the original at the Library of Congress.

Land ownership map, 1880 - Hardeman County, Texas
Land ownership map (1880) - Hardeman County, Texas. Library of Congress.
Land ownership map, 1891 - Hardeman Co
Land ownership map (1891) - Hardeman Co. Library of Congress.

The county from the air

32 shown

Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. The Survey holds 2,379 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 32 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1953-08-28, scale 1:14400
1953-08-28, scale 1:14400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1953-08-28, scale 1:14400
1953-08-28, scale 1:14400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1953-08-28, scale 1:14400
1953-08-28, scale 1:14400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1953-08-28, scale 1:14400
1953-08-28, scale 1:14400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1954-02-02, scale 1:64600
1954-02-02, scale 1:64600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1954-02-02, scale 1:64600
1954-02-02, scale 1:64600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1954-02-02, scale 1:64600
1954-02-02, scale 1:64600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1954-02-02, scale 1:64600
1954-02-02, scale 1:64600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1966-02-14, scale 1:18200
1966-02-14, scale 1:18200. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1966-02-14, scale 1:18200
1966-02-14, scale 1:18200. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1966-02-14, scale 1:18200
1966-02-14, scale 1:18200. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1966-02-14, scale 1:18200
1966-02-14, scale 1:18200. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-08-23, scale 1:60859
1973-08-23, scale 1:60859. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-08-23, scale 1:60859
1973-08-23, scale 1:60859. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-08-23, scale 1:61294
1973-08-23, scale 1:61294. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-08-23, scale 1:61294
1973-08-23, scale 1:61294. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-02-09, scale 1:80000
1975-02-09, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-02-09, scale 1:80000
1975-02-09, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-02-09, scale 1:80000
1975-02-09, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-02-09, scale 1:80000
1975-02-09, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1977-05-21, scale 1:24400
1977-05-21, scale 1:24400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1977-05-21, scale 1:24400
1977-05-21, scale 1:24400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1977-05-21, scale 1:24400
1977-05-21, scale 1:24400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1977-05-21, scale 1:24400
1977-05-21, scale 1:24400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1978-07-01, scale 1:12800
1978-07-01, scale 1:12800. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1978-07-01, scale 1:12800
1978-07-01, scale 1:12800. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1978-07-01, scale 1:12800
1978-07-01, scale 1:12800. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1978-07-01, scale 1:12800
1978-07-01, scale 1:12800. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1981-01-15, scale 1:30000
1981-01-15, scale 1:30000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1981-01-15, scale 1:30000
1981-01-15, scale 1:30000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1981-01-15, scale 1:30000
1981-01-15, scale 1:30000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1981-01-15, scale 1:30000
1981-01-15, scale 1:30000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

Weather records

5 stations, 2 gages

The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.

The 1950 census, district by district

16 districts

Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.

  • 99-1Justice Precinct 1: Quanah city: Quanah city - That part of Ward 1 Bounded by 3rd; Cain, 12th, Eddy, Eddy extended; City limits; City limits
  • 99-2Quanah city - That part of Ward 1 Bounded by 3rd; Main; City limits; Eddy extended, Eddy, 12th, Cain
  • 99-3Quanah city - That part of Ward 2 Bounded by 3rd; Good; City limits; Main
  • 99-4Quanah city - That part of Ward 2 Bounded by Third, Ward line; City limits; City limits; Good
  • 99-5Quanah city - That part of Ward 3 Bounded by City limits; City limits; Ward line, Third; Green, Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad, Jones
  • 99-6Quanah city - That part of Ward 3 Bounded by City limits; Jones, Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad, Green; Third; City limits
  • 99-7Justice Precinct 1 - That part north of Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad, outside Quanah city
  • 99-8Justice Precinct 1 - That part south of Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad, outside Quanah city
  • 99-9Justice Precinct 2
  • 99-10Justice Precinct 3: Chillicothe city: Chillicothe city - That part Bounded by City limits; City limits; Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad; City limits
  • 99-11Chillicothe city - That part Bounded by Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad; Killbury, Word; City limits
  • 99-12Chillicothe city - That part Bounded by Word, Killbury, Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad; City limits; City limits; City limits
  • 99-13Justice Precinct 3 - That part north of Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway, and Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad, outside Chillicothe city
  • 99-14Justice Precinct 3 - That part south of Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway, and Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad, outside Chillicothe city
  • 99-15Justice Precinct 4: Justice Precinct 4 - That part north of Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad
  • 99-16Justice Precinct 4 - That part south of Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad

Wildfire, 2005 to 2019

153 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 153 of them, burning about 21,908 acres. 12 started naturally and 5 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use35
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Smoking25
Natural12
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes1

The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 August 2019Other causes7,206 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOPPER BREAKS
20 September 2011Natural3,700 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH 104 FIRE
12 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOFETT
26 June 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1,200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1166 FIRE
3 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILLOW VIEW FIRE
16 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined850 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceARKANSAS RD
13 September 2015Natural800 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceABERNATHY
16 November 2007Equipment and vehicle use400 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1954 to 2026

60 of 462 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 462 reports for this county, causing no deaths, 2 injuries and about $1,091,950 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event Reports
Hail282
Thunderstorm Wind129
Tornado42
Flash Flood6
Flood2
Lightning1

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2001Tornado (F1)Quanah1 hurt, $60,000This was a large tornado, observed by many persons, but only produced F1 damage. The tornado formed about 3 miles east of Quanah and tracked east-southeast for 8 miles before dissipating. As the tornado crossed Highway 287, a semi-truck, which pulled to the side of the road, was blown over. The driver sustained several injuries, requiring hopital care. Also nearby, 10 to 15 utility poles were either blown over or snapped in half, and a trailer house was destroyed.
August 1970Tornado (F2)not stated1 hurt, $25,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$300,000Damage to buildings, trees, power poles, and other infrastructure was sustained city-wide.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindQuanah Muni Arpt$107,000All power was lost in the town of Quanah. Damage was reported to a log cabin. A bale of hay was lifted over a fence. Power poles/lines were downed. A mobile home rolled and was heavily damaged. Several residences reported roof damage. A chimney was knocked off the roof of one residence. Fences were reported knocked down. A grain bin was blown three quarters of a mile. Two out-buildings were also destroyed.
April 2003Tornado (F2)Williams$75,000This tornado began in Hardeman County, Texas producing F2 damage before moving northeast and crossing the Red River at 1829 CST into extreme western Jackson County, Oklahoma then moving into Harmon County, Oklahoma where it dissipated. The tornado moved through a farm north of Williams, Texas causing significant damage. A hay barn, saddle shed, garage, shop, and chicken house were destroyed. The house was also damaged with broken windows, porch removed from the house, tree limbs driven through the north facing wall, and the east wall of the house separated by approximately an inch.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindQuanah$50,000Numerous tree limbs and power lines were blown down. A radio station tower was blown down. Several car winds sustained damage due to flying debris. The wind speed was measured at 65 mph before power was lost. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindQuanah$50,000no account filed
May 1994Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$50,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindGoodlett$50,000no account filed
May 1993HailGoodlett$50,000no account filed
October 1993HailChillicothe$50,000no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindQuanah$25,000A center irrigation pivot was blown over and a 30x30 foot metal carport was overturned in/near Quanah. The location is approximate, and the event time is estimated based on radar observations.
May 1986Tornado (F1)not stated$25,000no account filed
March 1972Tornado (F1)not stated$25,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindQuanah$20,000A trailer building was destroyed.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindQuanah$15,000no account filed
August 2013Thunderstorm WindGoodlett$12,000An empty semi was overturned 2 miles west of Goodlett.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$12,000Several power poles were blown down. Monetary damages were estimated.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindQuanah$10,000Power lines and power poles were blown down along U.S. Highway 287 on the east side of Quanah. The event time is estimated based on radar observations.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindQuanah$10,000Several power lines were downed on the south and west side of town. The report was relayed by KREL. Monetary damages were estimated.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindQuanah$10,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed power lines and blew a railroad car off its tracks.
September 2004Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$7,500A tree fell over a power line in town.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindQuanah$5,000Live stream video showing a semi-trailer blown over on U.S. Highway 287 just east of Quanah. Time is radar estimated.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$5,000Power lines were downed and trees uprooted on Farm to Market Road 91.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindAcme$5,000A semi-truck was overturned.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindQuanah$5,000no account filed
May 1994Thunderstorm WindE Quanah$5,000no account filed
May 1994HailQuanah$5,000no account filed
May 1994HailQuanah$5,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindQuanah$4,000Severe thunderstorm winds uprooted trees and snapped tree limbs throughout Quanah. Sustained winds of 55 mph with peak gusts to 60 mph were measured at the Quanah Fire Department. Also, a pickup truck was flipped over by the severe winds west of town.
May 1977Tornado (F1)not stated$2,500no account filed
June 2008HailChillicothe$2,000The windshield of the police chief's car was broken by the falling hail.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$2,000A roof and tree were damaged.
August 2001LightningQuanah$2,000Lightning struck a transformer, causing a power outage to approximately 800 residents.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$1,500A ten inch diameter tree limb was downed.
April 2021Tornado (EFU)Copper Breaks St Pk$1,000Numerous storm chasers witnessed a tornado in extreme southern Hardeman County south of Quanah that developed close to State Highway 6 and moved east-southeast. The only known damage was to a cattle feeder in this rural area. The tornado path is estimated.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindQuanah$1,000no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$1,000no account filed
May 1996HailQuanah$500no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindQuanah$500no account filed
June 1992Tornado (F1)not stated$250no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindGoodlett$100Two to three inch tree limbs were downed.
June 1983Tornado (F1)not stated$30no account filed
May 1982Tornado (F0)not stated$30no account filed
June 1954Tornado (F1)not stated$30no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindChillicothe$10Tree limbs ranging from eight to ten inches in diameter blocked numerous roads between Chillicothe and Medicine Mound.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindGoodlett-Goodlett (GOOD) Mesonet observation. Severe (>50-knot) wind gusts occurred during the event time, with the peak wind gust of 51 knots occurring at 2227 LST.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindGoodlett-Goodlett (GOOD) Mesonet observation.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindGoodlett-Goodlett (GOOD) Mesonet observation. Severe (>50-knot) wind gusts occurred during the event time, with the peak gust of 75 knots occurring at 2237 LST.
March 2025HailQuanah-Social media images. The event time is estimated from radar observations.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindGoodlett-Goodlett (GOOD) Mesonet observation.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindGoodlett-Goodlett (GOOD) Mesonet observation. Severe (>50-knot) wind gusts occurred during the event time, with the peak gust of 66 knots occurring at 1944 LST.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindGoodlett-Goodlett (GOOD) Mesonet observation.
March 2024HailQuanah-Time is radar estimated.
April 2024HailCopper Breaks St Pk-MPing report.
April 2024HailQuanah-Report relayed by emergency management.
November 2024Thunderstorm WindGoodlett-Goodlett (GOOD) Mesonet observation.
May 2024HailChillicothe-Relayed by broadcast media.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGoodlett-Goodlett (GOOD) Mesonet observation.
June 2023HailGoodlett-Image shared via KOLJ. Time is radar estimated.

Mines and quarries

15 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 15 workings inside this county. 3 still produce and 12 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity Workings
Copper12
Gypsum-Anhydrite3
Silver1

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Maybell Canyon-1Copper, SilverOccurrence1977
Acme Gypsum PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Acme MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducerEvaporite, Marine
Acme QuarryGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Copper Breaks-1CopperOccurrence1891
Copper Breaks-2CopperOccurrence1974
Cottonwood Creek-1CopperOccurrence1968
Cottonwood Creek-2CopperOccurrence1975
Cottonwood Creek-3CopperOccurrence1971
Devils Creek-1CopperOccurrence1971
Gibbs ProspectCopperPast Producer1847, 1848, 1918
Hackberry Creek-1CopperOccurrence1968
Hackberry Creek-2CopperOccurrence1971
Hackberry Creek-3CopperOccurrence1968
Medicine Mounds-E-1CopperOccurrence1848

Every populated place in the county

15

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.

The vanished settlements of Hardeman County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.

Provenance

  • Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
  • Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
  • Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
  • 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • 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.