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Reagan County, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover 8 settlements here, and 1 property is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Research this county

From the record

1 National Register listing published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Texas within the United States
Reagan County within Texas

What the record shows

  • 58 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
  • 1 property here is on the National Register of Historic Places, listed as a building.
  • It was added during the 1970s.
  • The Geographic Names Information System records 8 populated places in this county; 8 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

1

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
Old Reagan County Courthousebuilding197878002976

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 1,042 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, 1953-12-15, scale 1:63000
1953-12-15, scale 1:63000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1953-12-15, scale 1:63000
1953-12-15, scale 1:63000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1953-12-15, scale 1:63000
1953-12-15, scale 1:63000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1953-12-15, scale 1:63000
1953-12-15, scale 1:63000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1954-05-04, scale 1:63000
1954-05-04, scale 1:63000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1954-05-04, scale 1:63000
1954-05-04, scale 1:63000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1954-05-04, scale 1:63000
1954-05-04, scale 1:63000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1954-05-04, scale 1:63000
1954-05-04, scale 1:63000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1966-01-14, scale 1:21600
1966-01-14, scale 1:21600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1966-01-14, scale 1:21600
1966-01-14, scale 1:21600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1966-01-14, scale 1:21600
1966-01-14, scale 1:21600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1966-01-14, scale 1:21600
1966-01-14, scale 1:21600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1968-01-23, scale 1:18400
1968-01-23, scale 1:18400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1968-01-23, scale 1:18400
1968-01-23, scale 1:18400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1968-01-23, scale 1:18400
1968-01-23, scale 1:18400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1968-01-23, scale 1:18400
1968-01-23, scale 1:18400. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-03-20, scale 1:21670
1969-03-20, scale 1:21670. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-03-20, scale 1:21670
1969-03-20, scale 1:21670. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-03-20, scale 1:21670
1969-03-20, scale 1:21670. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-12-08, scale 1:115750
1969-12-08, scale 1:115750. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1970-02-17, scale 1:17600
1970-02-17, scale 1:17600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1970-02-17, scale 1:17600
1970-02-17, scale 1:17600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1970-02-17, scale 1:17600
1970-02-17, scale 1:17600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1970-02-17, scale 1:17600
1970-02-17, scale 1:17600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-11-18, scale 1:20200
1971-11-18, scale 1:20200. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-11-18, scale 1:20200
1971-11-18, scale 1:20200. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-11-18, scale 1:20200
1971-11-18, scale 1:20200. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-11-18, scale 1:20200
1971-11-18, scale 1:20200. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-03-14, scale 1:25600
1972-03-14, scale 1:25600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-03-14, scale 1:25600
1972-03-14, scale 1:25600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-03-14, scale 1:25600
1972-03-14, scale 1:25600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1972-03-14, scale 1:25600
1972-03-14, scale 1:25600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1979-10-05, scale 1:80000
1979-10-05, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1979-10-05, scale 1:80000
1979-10-05, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1979-10-05, scale 1:80000
1979-10-05, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1979-10-05, scale 1:80000
1979-10-05, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

Weather records

4 stations

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

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.

  • 192-1Justice Precinct 1
  • 192-2Justice Precinct 2: Big Lake town: Big Lake town - That part Bounded by Town limits; Town limits; 5th; Town limits
  • 192-3Justice Precinct 2: Big Lake town - That part Bounded by 5th; Town limits; Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railroad; Town limits
  • 192-4Justice Precinct 2: Big Lake town - That part Bounded by Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railroad; Town limits; Town limits; Town limits
  • 192-5Justice Precinct 2 - That part outside Big Lake town
  • 192-6Justice Precinct 3
  • 192-7Justice Precinct 4
  • 192-8Justice Precinct 5

Wildfire, 2006 to 2020

96 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 96 of them, burning about 27,928 acres. 8 started naturally and none was recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural8
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 February 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution6,000 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFERGUSON
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,401 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROCKER B #2
14 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,000 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEST HOLLOW
28 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHLAND FIRE
25 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,480 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVAT
11 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,250 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEST LINE
31 August 2020Natural1,184 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFERGUSON
15 December 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBIG LAKE WEST

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

Storms, 1956 to 2026

60 of 228 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 228 reports for this county, causing no deaths, 5 injuries and about $565,760 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event Reports
Hail128
Thunderstorm Wind55
Flash Flood29
Tornado16

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
March 2000Tornado (F2)Stiles5 hurt, $200,000The tornado knocked a small house off its foundation by about 15 yards with the house pivoting 90 degrees as well. One infant suffered a slight head injury from falling furniture. The tornado continued travelling north-northeast through rural areas, but struck and destroyed a mobile home, injuring two men, one seriously. Lighter damage was scattered along the rest of its path, including utility poles down, parts of roofs damaged, fences and barns damaged, etc. The tornado crossed into Glasscock County at 31.65N/101.50W.
November 2004Flash FloodStiles$300,000Flash flooding along the usually dry Indian Creek in northeastern Reagan County caused high water to rush over portions of Farm to Market Road 2600. Fire department personnel aided several motorists in the area that were stranded by flowing water. Receding flood waters during the late afternoon hours revealed extensive damage to portions of the roadway.
March 2004Tornado (F0)Stiles$20,000Results from a National Weather Service storm survey indicated that a brief tornado resulted in five downed power poles in open range land across northeast Reagan County. A witness reported seeing a funnel in the immediate vicinity, and a rural resident that lives near the damaged poles heard a "loud roar".
April 2008HailBig Lake$10,000Half dollar to golfball sized hail was reported by police in Big Lake.
April 2008HailBig Lake$10,000Half dollar sized hail was reported by police in Big Lake.
April 2002HailBig Lake$10,000Broke windows out of a residence near the intersection of Highways 137 and 1537.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBig Lake$7,000A thunderstorm moved over Reagan County and produced a 70 mph wind gust in Big Lake. The wind blew the roof off of the Mustang Inn. The cost of the damage is a rough estimate.
September 2018Flash FloodBig Lake$5,000Heavy rain fell across Reagan County and produced flash flooding north of Big Lake. There was significant flooding on State Highway 137 north of Big Lake. Vehicles were stalled and water was running in the bar ditches and pastures. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
March 2005Thunderstorm WindStiles$1,000A rural resident north of Stiles reported 60 MPH gusts from a severe thunderstorm that blew open and slightly damaged the door on a large barn.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindBig Lake$1,000Damaging thunderstorm winds blew a garage down north-northwest of Big Lake.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBig Lake$1,000Minor roof damage and trees blown down.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindStiles$500The North Reagan County Fire Department reported severe thunderstorm winds that produced minor damage around the fire station. A large wooden swing and jungle gym unit was blown over by the winds.
June 2015Flash FloodBig Lake$200A line of thunderstorms moved across Reagan County and produced significant flooding in the city of Big Lake. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
March 1979Tornado (F0)not stated$30no account filed
April 1957Tornado (F0)not stated$30no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindStiles-The West Texas Mesonet station 5 SW Saint Lawrence measured a severe thunderstorm wind gust of 75 mph.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBig Lake-A dry microburst under a decaying thunderstorm anvil caused winds up to 60 mph, which was recorded by the Mesonet station 64 Big Lake.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBig Lake-A dry microburst under a decaying thunderstorm anvil caused a 58 mph wind gust at the AWOS station KE41 Big Lake.
April 2025HailBig Lake-A report of penny sized hail was received from mPING near Big Lake. Time is estimated from radar.
April 2025HailBig Lake-A report of hen egg size hail was received from mPING.
April 2025HailBig Lake-Ping pong to golf ball size hail observed on the road from storm chaser footage north of Big Lake.
October 2025Flash FloodBig Lake-Reagan County Sheriff's Office reported flash flooding along a few streets in the community of Big Lake. The total time of occurrence is partially estimated from radar. No damage was reported.
October 2025HailBig Lake-Reagan County Sheriff's Office reported half dollar-size hail in Big Lake. The total time of occurrence is partially estimated from radar.
May 2024HailTexon-Photo shared on Twitter/X of 3-inch hailstone measured with a ruler.
May 2024HailStiles-Public photo shared of half-dollar-size hail.
May 2024HailStiles-Large piles of small hail along the side of the road, some hail may be larger.
May 2024HailBig Lake-This report was from mPING.
June 2023HailStiles-COOP observer at Cope Ranch measured 2-inch hail.
May 2023HailStiles-Report from mPing.
February 2022Thunderstorm WindBest-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a 61 mph wind gust five miles southwest of Saint Lawrence.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBig Lake-A thunderstorm produced a 60 mph wind gust at the Big Lake AWOS site.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBest-A thunderstorm produced a 65 mph wind gust at the mesonet site near St. Lawrence.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBig Lake-A thunderstorm produced a 61 mph wind gust as measured by the mesonet by Big Lake.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBest-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a 67 mph wind gust at the mesonet site located five miles southwest of St. Lawrence.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBig Lake-A thunderstorm produced a 58 mph wind gust near Big Lake.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBest-A thunderstorm produced a 59 mph wind gust at the St. Lawrence mesonet site.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindBest-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a 63 mph wind gust five miles southwest of St. Lawrence.
April 2019HailBig Lake-Time was estimated from the radar, and the report was relayed by local media via Twitter.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBest-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a 61 mph wind gust five miles southwest of St. Lawrence.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindBest-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a 62 mph wind gust about five miles southwest of St. Lawrence.
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Big Lake-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a brief landspout. This landspout was observed in an open field just east of State Highway 137 roughly 20 to 25 miles north of Big Lake. There was no damage reported so it was rated as an EF-0.
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Big Lake-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a landspout. The landspout was observed in open country and no damage was reported so it was rated as an EF-0.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBig Lake-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a wind gust of 58 mph one mile west southwest of Big Lake.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBest-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a 63 mph wind gust five miles southwest of St. Lawrence.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindBest-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a 61 mph wind gust five miles southwest of St. Lawrence.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindBest-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a 66 mph wind gust five miles southwest of St. Lawrence.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindBig Lake-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a 66 mph wind gust near Big Lake.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindBest-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a 58 mph wind gust near St. Lawrence.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindStiles-A thunderstorm produced a reported wind gust of 50 to 60 mph.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindBig Lake-The public reported a thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60-70 mph in Big Lake.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindStiles-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a 63 mph wind gust as recorded by the mesonet five miles southwest of St. Lawrence.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindBest-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a 64 mph wind gust at the Mesonet site southwest of St. Lawrence.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindBig Lake-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a 62 mph wind gust as recorded by the mesonet.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindBig Lake-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a 60 mph wind gust at the Pilot Travel Center in Big Lake.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindBest-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced a 59 mph wind gust near St. Lawrence at the mesonet site.
May 2014HailTexon-A thunderstorm moved over the Western Gas Plant in Reagan County and produced golfball size hail. No damage was reported.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindStiles-A thunderstorm moved over Reagan County and produced a 73 mph wind gust five miles southwest of St. Lawrence. No damage was reported.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindBig Lake-A thunderstorm moved over Reagan County and produced a 60 mph wind gust in Big Lake. No damage was reported.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBest-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced 60 mph winds and dime sized hail near Best. No damage was reported.
May 2014HailBest-A thunderstorm moved across Reagan County and produced golfball sized hail and a brief funnel cloud one mile north of the North Reagan Fire Station. No damage was reported.

Mines and quarries

1 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 1 working inside this county. It still produces. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity Workings
Sulfur1

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

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dorchester GasSulfurProducer

Every populated place in the county

8

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 Reagan 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.