Ackerly, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lamesa Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79713. The Survey maps it on the Ackerly quadrangle. 264 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,802 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAckerly grew from 220 to 264 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 | 220 | |
| 2020 | 264 | +44 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Ackerly quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lamesa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Ackerly between 2006 and 2016, burning about 38 acres in total. None 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 | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2010 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | N 87 |
| 29 June 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 20710 N 87 |
| 7 March 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | V SMITH LAKE |
| 2 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 February 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FLOWER GROVE BAR DITCH |
| 14 January 2006 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
8 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ackerly in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ackerly | $210,000 | A thunderstorm moved across Dawson County and produced wind damage near Ackerly. There were 13 snapped power poles one mile north of Ackerly on Highway 87. The time was estimated by radar. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Ackerly | $8,000 | Water up to one and a half feet deep flowed across roads in Ackerly. Flash flooding was also reported in Lamesa with six to eight inches of water flowing over U.S. Highway 180. Several vehicles were stranded in high water after trying to drive through low water crossings. An additional vehicle had to be towed after the driver misjudged the location of the water covered road and drove into a ditch. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Ackerly | - | Storm spotters and local law enforcement officials reported intermittent flash flooding along U.S. Highway 87 between Ackerly and Lamesa. More than six inches of rapidly flowing flood waters covered the highway near the intersection of Farm to Market Road 828 just south of Lamesa. In addition, several streets in Ackerly were inundated by high water. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Ackerly | - | Multiple reports were received of large hail in the vicinity of Ackerly. Initial reports by the Lamesa Police Department indicated golfball size hail along U.S. Highway 87 northeast of town. Storm spotters also reported penny to quarter size hail further south along U.S. Highway 87 to the Martin County line. |
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Ackerly | - | A brief tornado was observed from a supercell storm as it interacted with an outflow boundary. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Ackerly | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Ackerly | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Ackerly | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sparenberg | 7.7 miles | 8 | |
| Midway | 11.6 miles | 8 | |
| Tenmile | 11.7 miles | 8 | |
| Fivemile | 11.7 miles | 8 | |
| Klondike | 13.0 miles | 8 | |
| Key | 14.6 miles | 8 | |
| Patricia | 16.3 miles | 6 | |
| Los Ybanez | 17.0 miles | 8 |
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 Ackerly | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q341791 | 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 1329187. 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.



