BlockAiken, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lockney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79241. The Survey maps it on the Aiken quadrangle. It stands 3,300 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 Plainview quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Aiken quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Aiken between 2010 and 2016, burning about 225 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 July 2016 | Natural | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 15 December 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aiken in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aiken | $15,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew the roof off a module shed, destroyed a barn, and blew down 30 power poles on Farm-to-Market Road 788. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aiken | $10,000 | Local officials reported that two utility poles were blown down by thunderstorm winds along U.S. Highway 70 at Aiken. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aiken | $500 | The same series of downbursts that created damage earlier in Hale County continued eastward into northwest Floyd County before dissipating. A storm spotter observed shingles blown off a roof north of Aiken. |
| April 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Aiken | - | Several storm spotters observed a brief tornado over open land about two miles west of Lockney. Detailed video from a storm chaser indicated this tornado was preceded by a well-defined rotating wall cloud. No damage survey was conducted as this tornado remained over open land. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Aiken | - | A Skywarn spotter reported half dollar size hail in Aiken. The hail was also reported to have damaged cotton fields in the area. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Aiken | - | Downburst winds of 60 miles an hour were reported in Petersburg by the Petersburg Fire Department. As the storm moved into Floyd County, the public reported nickel-size hail in Aiken. Only minor damage resulted. |
| September 2004 | Hail | Aiken | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Aiken | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Aiken | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aiken | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aiken | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Aiken | - | 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.
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 Aiken | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4696927 | 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 1379324. 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.