Bula, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the South Sand Hills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79324. The Survey maps it on the Bula quadrangle.

Bula within Bailey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Bula quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Levelland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

16 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Bula between 2009 and 2019, burning about 2,317 acres in total. 9 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	9
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
3 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS14-22
7 August 2009	Natural	60 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2009063
31 August 2019	Natural	500 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2019109
17 August 2009	Natural	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2009067
26 June 2010	Natural	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS 19
25 June 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2010053
2 June 2012	Natural	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS 2012-5
17 June 2010	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS 17

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bailey County

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bula in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 11 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
October 2002	Hail	Bula	$25,000	Golfball size hail broke windows and damaged the roofs of homes.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bula	$800	Local media relayed a report of carport damage in Bula as severe downburst winds moved overhead.
April 2025	Tornado (EFU)	Bula	-	Numerous storm chasers and Texas Tech University researchers observed a large dusty tornado that tracked from eastern Bailey County into western Lamb County. The tornado became multi-vortex for a short time, then became occluded toward the end of its life cycle. Several small gustnadoes were also observed along the rear-flank gust front. No reports of damage were received.
May 2022	Flash Flood	Bula	-	A cyclic tornadic supercell persisted for several hours near the intersection of Bailey, Lamb, Hockley, and Cochran Counties. This thunderstorm brought copious amount of rainfall to this region leading to flash flooding over a widespread area. Most of the rainfall was observed over far southeastern Bailey County where between three and seven inches of rain fell. While conducting a tornado storm survey the next day, the NWS survey team discovered numerous roads that were impassable due to flooding.
June 2002	Hail	Bula	-	Wind-driven golfball size hail destroyed thousands of acres of cotton.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bula	-	Personnel at the Bula gin estimated 70 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Bula	-	Amateur radio storm spotters reported that strong winds had uprooted several trees.
May 2001	Hail	Bula	-	Storm spotters reported golfball size hail.
May 2001	Hail	Bula	-	Personnel at the Bula Gin reported quarter size hail that lasted about one half hour.
May 2001	Hail	Bula	-	Law enforcement officials reported golfball size hail.
September 2004	Hail	Bula	-	no account filed
October 2002	Hail	Bula	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Bula	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Bula	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Bula	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Bula	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bailey 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
Enochs	7.0 miles	7
Circleback	8.5 miles	8
Needmore	9.9 miles	8
Baileyboro	12.5 miles	8
Fairview	13.2 miles	9
Maple	14.5 miles	7
Stegall	18.0 miles	9
Goodland	18.1 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1353222. 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.