Kimble County, Texas

36 topographic sheets cover 10 settlements here, and 4 properties are on the National Register of Historic Places.

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From the record

4 National Register listings published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Texas within the United States

Kimble County within Texas

Explore by year From 1879 To 1892

What the record shows

96 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
4 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 3 structures and 1 building.
The Geographic Names Information System records 10 populated places in this county; 10 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

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

Property	Type	Listed	Reference
Brambletye	building	1982	82004511
State Highway 27 Bridge at Johnson Fork	structure	1996	96001113
State Highway 27 Bridge at the South Llano River	structure	1996	96001124
State Highway 27 Bridge at the South Llano River	structure	1996	96001124

Bird's-eye views and land ownership maps

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, 1879 - Map of Kimble County — Land ownership map (1879) - Map of Kimble County. Library of Congress.

Land ownership map, 1892 - Kimble County — Land ownership map (1892) - Kimble County. Library of Congress.

The county from the air

36 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 738 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 36 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, 1953-05-07, scale 1:69000 — 1953-05-07, scale 1:69000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1954-05-28, scale 1:63000 — 1954-05-28, scale 1:63000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1966-01-26, scale 1:29600 — 1966-01-26, scale 1:29600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1967-03-02, scale 1:30000 — 1967-03-02, scale 1:30000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1968-02-02, scale 1:19200 — 1968-02-02, scale 1:19200. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1968-02-04, scale 1:19200 — 1968-02-04, scale 1:19200. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-02-25, scale 1:31200 — 1969-02-25, scale 1:31200. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-01-21, scale 1:119976 — 1971-01-21, scale 1:119976. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-01-21, scale 1:119244 — 1971-01-21, scale 1:119244. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1973-02-03, scale 1:30000 — 1973-02-03, scale 1:30000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1980-02-03, scale 1:80000 — 1980-02-03, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

Weather records

15 stations, 3 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.

JUNCTION 4SSW 1897 to 2026, hottest 44.4 C, coldest -23.9 C
ROOSEVELT 2 E 1940 to 1965
BREWERS STORE 5 SW 1948 to 1951
DUNK RCH 1948 to 1958
MURR RCH 1948 to 1965
TELEGRAPH 1948 to 2009
JUNCTION KIMBLE CO AP 1948 to 2026, hottest 45.6 C, coldest -21.7 C
SEGOVIA 1958 to 1965
JUNCTION 13.8 SE 2009 to 2013
JUNCTION 11.6 ENE 2009 to 2024
JUNCTION 2.8 SSW 2012 to 2015
JUNCTION 4.4 SW 2018 to 2026
TELEGRAPH 7E 2018 to 2026
INGRAM 23.3 NNW 2019 to 2024
HARPER 8.9 NW 2025 to 2026

Llano Rv nr Junction, TX 1915 to 2026
N Llano Rv nr Junction, TX 1915 to 2026
S Llano Rv at Flat Rock Ln at Junction, TX 2012 to 2026

The 1950 census, district by district

8 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.

134-1Commissioner's Precinct 1: Junction city: Junction city - That part Bounded by City limits; City limits; City limits; South Llano River, City limits
134-2Commissioner's Precinct 1: Junction city - That part Bounded by City limits; Old Road, N. 11th, N. Llano, 11th; College; City limits
134-3Commissioner's Precinct 1: Junction city - That part Bounded by City limits; South Llano River, City limits; City limits; S. 17th, S. Llano, S. 17th, S. Llano, 11th, N. Llano, N. 11th, Old Road
134-4Commissioner's Precinct 1: Junction city - That part Bounded by College; 11th, S. Llano, S. 17th, S. Llano, S. 17th; City limits; City limits
134-5Commissioner's Precinct 1 - That part outside Junction city
134-6Commissioner's Precinct 2
134-7Commissioner's Precinct 3
134-8Commissioner's Precinct 4

Wildfire, 2005 to 2020

269 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 269 of them, burning about 16,034 acres. 30 started naturally and 1 was recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause	Fires
Equipment and vehicle use	94
Debris and open burning	71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	53
Natural	30
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9,445 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OASIS FIRE
2 August 2016	Debris and open burning	804 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	KC 1121
19 June 2008	Debris and open burning	800 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 August 2011	Natural	600 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BIG DRAW FIRE
27 December 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	450 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LITTLE DEVIL'S RIVER
26 June 2010	Natural	325 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2010-39
7 April 2010	Debris and open burning	280 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2010-28
15 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	240 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2010-63

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

Storms, 1953 to 2025

60 of 242 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 242 reports for this county, causing 5 deaths, 5 injuries and about $24,732,700 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event	Reports
Hail	144
Thunderstorm Wind	42
Flash Flood	40
Tornado	7
Flood	4
Funnel Cloud	3
Heavy Rain	1
Lightning	1

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

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2018	Flash Flood	Telegraph	4 killed, 3 hurt, $9,000,000	Some rural residents were trapped in their homes by a major flash flood on the S. Llano River and Cedar Creek, in some cases requiring them to be rescued. Others awoke to find water in their homes and were able to evacuate themselves.\|\|The Above and Beyond RV Resort, located adjacent to the South Llano River, was completely flooded, washing RVs and motor vehicles down stream, trapping people who sought refuge in trees in the park, and carrying some down the river. First responders who arrived at the scene before daylight, heard people, who they were unable to see in trees and on top of RVs, calling for help. They threw life preservers to the victims in the water. \|\|Miraculously, a woman who was staying at the RV park was carried about 23 river miles downstream before being rescued near Yates Crossing. She was slightly injured. At least two others were injured. \|\|Old Cedar Creek flows into the South Llano River just a few hundred yards above the park. In the early hours of Monday morning, the normally small creek came expanded to 300 yards in size and poured volumes of water into the S. Llano. This water seemed to have arrived just prior to the wall of water from the South Llano. Rescue workers said they could hear the sound of a roar with a wall of water coming down the river. \|\|Authorities have reported that 40-45 people were evacuated and 19 people were rescued by helicopter or swift water rescue boats. There were three men and one woman who drowned. Some of these victims did all they could to help others evacuate the RV Park.\|\|Cost of road damage was estimated at 9 million dollars. Damage to property was unknown.
May 2019	Lightning	Junction	1 killed	A man from Midland was killed by lightning while he and his family were camping at Llano State Park.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Junction	1 hurt, $5,000	no account filed
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Junction	1 hurt, $3,000	Strong thunderstorm wind gusts overturned a travel trailer injuring one person inside.
October 2018	Flood	Cleo	$10,000,000	Prolonged heavy rainfall continued to flood roads across Kimble County. This flooding damaged 324 miles of roads and several bridges.
June 1997	Flash Flood	Segovia	$5,000,000	Four to eight inches of rain fell over much of Kimble County, with ten inches reported at Segovia and 16 inches a few miles north of Segovia. The heavy rains and floodwaters closed Farm-to-Market roads and highways throughout the county. Water was five feet deep at the entrance to South Llano State Park. The county judge estimated millions of dollars of damage on roads and bridges.
March 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Junction	$100,000	In Junction, the NWS survey team found evidence of two tornadoes. The first touchdown was located 0.8 miles west southwest of Junction in a residential neighborhood. At this location, they found damage to storage sheds and an awning. The tornado broke a power pole near the base and blew out windows of a nearby residence. The tornado damage was consistent with an EF0 tornado.
March 1997	Flash Flood	London	$100,000	no account filed
August 1996	Flash Flood	Junction	$100,000	no account filed
November 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	London	$100,000	no account filed
July 2002	Flash Flood	Countywide	$80,000	Heavy rains fell across Kimble County producing widespread flooding throughout the county. At the height of the flood several roads were closed due to high water, including Highway 377. Most of the property damage was due to road washouts.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Junction	$70,000	A severe thunderstorm moved across Kimble County producing 70 MPH winds. These winds ripped the roof off of a house and caused significant tree damage.
October 1996	Flash Flood	Segovia	$50,000	no account filed
November 2000	Flash Flood	Countywide	$25,000	Slow moving thunderstorms dropped 6 to 8 inches of rain across much of Kimble County. Creeks and draws quickly became flooded, forcing the closure of many roadways, including U.S. Highway 377 south of Junction.
May 1969	Tornado (F3)	not stated	$25,000	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	(Jct)Kimble Co Arpt	$23,000	Significant wind damage was reported in Junction. Several trees were blown down and caused damage to nearby buildings.
March 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Junction	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds moved through Junction resulting in damage to a business as well as several other structures. Several large trees were blown down as well.
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Roosevelt	$10,000	Winds uprooted trees.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	(Jct)Kimble Co Arpt	$8,000	Thunderstorm winds produced damage in and around Junction.
October 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Roosevelt	$8,000	Roof blown off of a home.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Roosevelt	$8,000	A severe wind gust tore a roof off of a home.
October 2002	Flash Flood	Telegraph	$5,000	The South Llano River flooded the South Llano State Park and flowed over Highway 377 for almost a day and a half. The bulk of the water came from heavy rains that fell on the upper end of the South Llano River in Northern Edwards County. There were several waves of heavy rains over southern Kimble County that produced several rises on the river as well and kept the river elevated for a long period of time.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	(Jct)Kimble Co Arpt	$1,000	A carport was blown over onto some cars 6 miles northeast of Junction on U.S. Highway 377.
October 2004	Hail	Junction	$1,000	Car windsheilds were smashed in.
March 2005	Hail	London	$500	Golfball size hail was reported near London.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Junction	$200	High winds downed a pecan tree just north of Junction.
May 2025	Hail	Junction	-	Public reported numerous quarter to half dollar size hail.
May 2025	Hail	Junction	-	Sheriff's office reported lots of dime size hail with some quarter size hail mixed in.
May 2025	Hail	London	-	Public reported damage to tree limbs and broken car windows from very large hail. The hail was mostly golf ball sized with some baseball sized hail reported.
May 2025	Hail	London	-	A storm chaser reported baseball size hail.
July 2025	Flash Flood	London	-	Law enforcement reported that there were several high water rescues including a boat rescuing people from a mobile home as well as rescuing a motorist trapped in a tree escaping the flood waters. Also, several low water crossings were flooded. Time is estimated by radar.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Cleo	-	Public reported 2 to 3 feet deep flood waters across RM 2291 in north-central Kimble County.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Junction	-	The Kimble County Emergency Manager reported that numerous roads were flooded in Kimble County, with road closures at various locations. In addition, numerous streets are flooded in Junction and Roosevelt.
March 2024	Hail	Cleo	-	Public reported ping pong ball size hail.
February 2024	Hail	(Jct)Kimble Co Arpt	-	Public reported half dollar size hail.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Segovia	-	Law enforcement reported an effort in progress helping a family out of their home which had about 2 feet of water running through it. Law enforcement also reported that E. Ranch Rd./FM 2169 is closed from Segovia to Junction.
May 2024	Hail	(Jct)Kimble Co Arpt	-	Public reported quarter size hail.
May 2024	Hail	Cleo	-	Public reported on social media golf ball to tennis ball size hail just south of Cleo.
April 2023	Hail	Junction	-	There was some hail possibly larger than quarter size. There were tents damaged due to the wind and hail.
June 2023	Hail	London	-	Public reported ping pong ball size hail.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	(Jct)Kimble Co Arpt	-	ASOS reported a 62 mph wind gust.
June 2023	Hail	(Jct)Kimble Co Arpt	-	The public reported quarter size hail in Junction near I-10.
June 2023	Hail	Junction	-	Law Enforcement reported golf ball size hail in Junction.
June 2023	Hail	Cleo	-	COOP observer reported half dollar size hail. There was mostly dime size hail falling for 2 hours.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Junction	-	Public reported a large tree fell on a RV camper located at the Morgan Shady RV Park.
October 2023	Flash Flood	London	-	An emergency manager reported Ranch Road 385 and Farm to Market Road 3480 was closed due to water over the road from Red Creek.
October 2023	Flash Flood	Junction	-	There was flash flooding around Junction. There were road closures to County Road 450, Ranch Road 2189, County Road 410, County Road 320, County Road, Ranch Road 385 and areas along US 377. Also, there was 4 to 7 inches of rain during the past 18 hours.
October 2023	Flood	Junction	-	Public reported flooding near South Llano River State Park.
October 2023	Flood	Junction	-	NWS COOP observer reported the road to the state park is impassable.
October 2023	Flood	Junction	-	An emergency manager reported the road is impassable due to flooding.
September 2023	Flash Flood	Segovia	-	Law Enforcement reported water over Farm to Market Road 2169 near I-10.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Junction	-	The Park/Forest Service reported damage to several trees and large tree limbs in South Llano State Park.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Segovia	-	The West Texas Mesonet site at Segovia 7 SSW measured a wind gust of 65 mph.
March 2021	Hail	(Jct)Kimble Co Arpt	-	Law enforcement reported golf ball to baseball size hail fell at Mile Marker 451 along Interstate 10.
March 2021	Hail	Junction	-	Golf ball to baseball size hail was reported near South Llano State Park.
March 2021	Hail	Junction	-	The public reported golf ball size hail in Junction.
March 2021	Hail	Segovia	-	A photo of hail estimated to be 1.5 inches in diameter at Segovia was received from social media.
March 2021	Funnel Cloud	Roosevelt	-	Law enforcement reported a storm chaser located 4 miles south southeast of Roosevelt reported two funnel clouds south of Roosevelt. They were never seen touching the ground.
May 2021	Hail	Cleo	-	The public reported hail up to golf ball size along Mile Marker 445 on I-10 west of Junction.
May 2021	Hail	Cleo	-	A rainfall observer reported golf ball to baseball size hail between Junction and Roosevelt.

Mines and quarries

8 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 8 workings inside this county. 6 still produce and 2 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity	Workings
Gypsum-Anhydrite	3
Sand and Gravel, Construction	3
Stone, Crushed/Broken	2

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

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
219 Kimble County	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Strain Brothers Incorporated	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Harper Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer	Sedimentary
Harper Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Helens Pit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Junction Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Murr Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Northcott Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every populated place in the county

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.

Buck Hollow

Junction Northwest census division · 76849 · In Buck Hollow · Roosevelt quadrangle

12 sheets, 1893 to 1993
Cleo

Junction Northwest census division · 76849 · On West Bear Creek · Elm Slough quadrangle

8 sheets, 1954 to 1985
Junction

Junction Southeast census division · 76849 · Near Round Top · Junction quadrangle

9 sheets, 1932 to 1985
London

Junction Northwest census division · 76854 · Near Walton Draw · London quadrangle

7 sheets, 1954 to 1985
Noxville

Junction Southeast census division · 78631 · Noxville quadrangle

11 sheets, 1894 to 1985
Roosevelt

Junction Northwest census division · 76849 · Near Deep Hollow · Roosevelt quadrangle

12 sheets, 1893 to 1993
Segovia

Junction Southeast census division · 76849 · On Sycamore Creek · Segovia quadrangle

7 sheets, 1954 to 1985
Telegraph

Junction Southeast census division · 76849 · In Telegraph Canyon · Telegraph quadrangle

10 sheets, 1926 to 1985
Wilson Place

Junction Northwest census division · 76849 · Roosevelt quadrangle

12 sheets, 1893 to 1993
Yates

Junction Southeast census division · 76854 · On Red Creek · Yates quadrangle

8 sheets, 1954 to 1985

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.