BlockBootleg, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hereford West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79035. The Survey maps it on the Bootleg quadrangle.
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 Clovis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Bootleg quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hereford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bootleg between 2006 and 2012, burning about 132 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 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 June 2012 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PULMAN |
| 27 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 12 May 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 127 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 February 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUMLEY |
Storms near this place
32 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bootleg in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 23 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 | Hail | Bootleg | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Bootleg | - | This tornado was viewed by local fire department from the intersection of FM 1057 and FM 1058. Per collaboration with radar imagery it appeared to move slowly to the northeast before dissipating. No known damage occurred with this tornado and has been given the rating of EFU. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Bootleg | - | Ping pong ball size hail fell in Bootleg. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bootleg | - | Winds estimated at 60 MPH by trained spotter. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bootleg | - | The KVII School Net site located 7 miles north of Bootleg at Walcott School measured a wind gust of 85 mph. Emergency management found damage at this location. A roof of an outbuilding was blown 300 feet and wrapped around a pickup truck. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Bootleg | - | A line of thunderstorms moved out of eastern New Mexico and into the Texas Panhandle. As the storms moved over the city of Bootleg (Deaf Smith County), the fire department reported nickel size hail. The line moved quickly to the east, and only produced pea size hail. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Bootleg | - | A supercell thunderstorm that developed along a retreating dryline in Deaf Smith and Oldham Counties tracked to the northeast across the southern Texas Panhandle. A trained storm spotter reported baseball size hail 5 miles west of Bootleg (Deaf Smith County). The supercell continued traveling in a northeastern direction which took it out of the county shortly after 10 pm. No injuries were relayed with this report. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Bootleg | - | A supercell thunderstorm that developed along a retreating dryline in Deaf Smith and Oldham Counties tracked to the northeast across the southern Texas Panhandle. A trained storm spotter reported golfball size hail 6 miles west of Bootleg (Deaf Smith County). The supercell continued traveling in a northeastern direction which took it out of the county shortly after 10 pm. No injuries were relayed with this report. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Bootleg | - | A line of thunderstorms moved across the southwestern Texas Panhandle during the evening hours of the 5th. This line took on a classic bow echo signature, and golf ball size hail (1.75 inches) in the city of Bootleg (Deaf Smith County). The line continued to move to the south-southeast across the county, and quickly moved into northwest Texas. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bootleg | - | Scattered thunderstorms over Deaf Smith County merged and intensified during the evening hours of the 17th. This intensification was brief, and as the merged thunderstorm diminished, a localized downburst of 70 mph was measured by the RAWS site in Bootleg (Deaf Smith County). |
| June 2013 | Heavy Rain | Bootleg | - | Diminishing thunderstorms over Deaf Smith County produced locally heavy rain during the evening hours of the 17th. A member of the public 2 miles west of Bootleg (Deaf Smith County) reported 4 inches of rain and minor flooding of roads. Once these thunderstorms moved out of the county the minor flooding quickly receded. No swift water rescues or stranded motorist were reported in association with this heavy rain. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Bootleg | - | A discrete supercell thunderstorm produced a brief tornado southwest of Bootleg (Deaf Smith County) during the evening hours of the 28th. Several eye witnesses reported this tornado and submitted pictures. A National Weather Service survey team located the path of this tornado and verified that the tornado was very narrow which matched the description of a rope tornado given by one eye witness. The max wind estimated with this tornado was 70 mph. The tornado remained over undeveloped grasslands and produced little damage. No injuries or fatalities were associated with this tornado. |
| November 2011 | Hail | Bootleg | - | The Bootleg Fire Department reported pea to quarter size hail covering the ground in the town of Bootleg Texas. There were no reports of damage or injuries. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Bootleg | - | The Hereford Fire Department also observed a wall cloud near Bootleg. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Bootleg | - | The Deaf Smith County Emergency Manager also reported a rotating wall cloud. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Bootleg | - | The Deaf Smith County Emergency Manager reported the hail at County Road U and Farm to Market Road 1058. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Bootleg | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bootleg | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bootleg | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bootleg | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Bootleg | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Bootleg | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Bootleg | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Bootleg | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Bootleg | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Bootleg | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Bootleg | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Bootleg | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Bootleg | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Bootleg | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Bootleg | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Bootleg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walcott | 7.0 miles | 8 | |
| Westway | 14.2 miles | 9 | |
| Simms | 16.4 miles | 6 | |
| Hereford | 22.1 miles | 8 | |
| Milo Center | 24.3 miles | 8 | |
| Glenrio (historical) | 27.0 miles | 5 | |
| Joel | 27.3 miles | 8 | |
| Ford | 29.0 miles | 6 |
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 Bootleg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q137845494 | 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 1379447. 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.