Augustus, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Post East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79356. It lies near Two Bush Knob. The Survey maps it on the Post East quadrangle.

Augustus within Garza County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched 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 Lubbock quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1969 USGS Post East quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Slaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Augustus between 2005 and 2010, burning about 44 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
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
9 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 April 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 March 2010	Natural	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	S. POST HWY 84
16 February 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
31 December 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 December 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Garza County

Storms near this place

9 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Augustus in 9 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 4 hail, 4 tornado, 1 flood. 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
April 2025	Tornado (EFU)	Augustus	-	A slow moving supercell thunderstorm produced five known tornadoes. This is the second of the five tornadoes. Storm chasers reported a brief touchdown in an open field. No damage was reported.
April 2025	Tornado (EFU)	Augustus	-	A slow moving supercell thunderstorm produced five known tornadoes. This is the third of the five tornadoes. Storm chasers reported a tornado over open country. No damage was reported.
April 2025	Tornado (EFU)	Augustus	-	A slow moving supercell thunderstorm produced five known tornadoes. This is the fourth of the five tornadoes. Storm chasers reported a tornado over open country. No damage was reported.
April 2025	Tornado (EFU)	Augustus	-	A slow moving supercell thunderstorm produced five known tornadoes. This is the fifth of the five tornadoes. An NWS cooperative weather observer observed a brief tornado over open country. No damage was reported.
April 2019	Flood	Augustus	-	Several rounds of thunderstorms late this night deposited between three and five inches of rain in a few hours over a large swath of eastern Garza County. Low lying sections of Highway 84 were reported by TX-DoT to have standing water of several inches deep.
April 2016	Hail	Augustus	-	An off duty NWS employee reported ping pong ball size hail in Garza County at the intersection of US Highway 380 and Farm to Market Road 2008.
May 2015	Hail	Augustus	-	A storm chaser reported quarter sized hail and wind gusts to 60 mph as a supercell thunderstorm occurred five to ten miles southwest of Kalgary.
April 2012	Hail	Augustus	-	Pea to nickel size hail fell along highway 84. No damage was reported.
April 2020	Hail	Augustus	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garza County

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Post	5.9 miles	7
Justiceburg	7.9 miles	7
Graham	9.1 miles	7
Verbena	11.4 miles	7
Close City	11.4 miles	7
Pleasant Valley	14.6 miles	7
Buenos	15.3 miles	7
Hackberry	17.4 miles	7

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.

Wikidata item Q122557619

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 1379374. 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.