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Champion, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Roscoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79545. The Survey maps it on the Bench Mountain quadrangle.

Champion within Nolan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

25 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Champion between 2005 and 2020, burning about 795 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2010Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHAMPION STORE GRASS FIRE
3 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2008Natural200 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2008Natural100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE 2319 AN CR 135
7 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILLIS HUGHES FIRE
25 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceI-20 MM 230 FIRE
5 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE DUNCAN HASTINGS RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nolan County

Storms near this place

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Champion in 18 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 13 hail, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2004Tornado (F1)Champion$200,000An NWS survey team found evidence of tornado damage that extended from near Champion to about 3 miles east of Champion. Several power poles were snapped and a barn was totally destroyed. Irrigation equipment was also thrown about and twisted.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindChampion$80,000The rear flank downdraft impacted the Champion community with estimated winds at 80 mph. Trees were uprooted and fell into several houses.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindChampion$2,000High winds destroyed a pivot irrigation system.
April 2024HailChampion-Public reported quarter size hail.
April 2024HailChampion-Social media reported golf ball size hail.
June 2023HailChampion-The report was from mping.
October 2023HailChampion-The public reported 2 inch diameter hail near Champion.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindChampion-A residence lost its metal roof on a section of the home. Power poles were knocked down. In addition, several branches were snapped due to the wind and leaves stripped due to hail. The hail was at least 6 inches deep on the nearby road.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindChampion-A wind gust of 60 mph was reported.
April 2003HailChampion-Hail from a second severe thunderstorm feel for 30 minutes.
April 2016HailChampion-no account filed
October 2014HailChampion-no account filed
March 2008HailChampion-no account filed
April 2006HailChampion-no account filed
May 2005HailChampion-no account filed
May 2004HailChampion-no account filed
April 2003HailChampion-no account filed
June 1999HailChampion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nolan 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Brownlee4.0 miles8
Roscoe7.4 miles9
Shaufler10.1 miles13
Wastella10.6 miles8
Avenger Village11.2 miles13
Maryneal12.4 miles12
Sweetwater13.8 miles13
Orient15.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378111. 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.