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Clawson, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Lufkin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75969. The Survey maps it on the Clawson quadrangle.

Clawson within Angelina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

342 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 342 fires within 5 miles of Clawson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,641 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 18 were 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
Debris and open burning241
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Arson/incendiarism18
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking7
Natural5
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS/WOODS/FM 2251
7 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS WOODS/3226 HWY 69N
5 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS WOODS/CROSSTIMBERS
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 848
5 September 2000Debris and open burning100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 684
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE HWY 69 NORTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Angelina County

Storms near this place

12 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clawson in 12 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 8 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Clawson$2,000An EF0 tornado touched down along Richardson Road northwest of Lufkin, Texas and moved eastward. Minor roof damage occurred to a mobile home at Royce Oliver Road and Richardson Road and several trees were blown down. Another home suffered minor roof damage and more trees were blown down at the FM 706/Hwy. 69 intersection.
May 2025Flash FloodClawson-Frank Street in front of St. Luke's Memorial Hospital was flooded and closed. Ellis Avenue and Angelina Street, Ellis Avenue and Raguet Street, Kurth Drive at the Ellen Trout Drive underpass, and all of Denman Avenue inside the loop were also closed due to flooding.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindClawson-Trees were downed in the 4600 block of Highway 69 just northwest of Lufkin.
May 2021Flash FloodClawson-Numerous roads were closed due to flooding, including Kurth Drive, Tulane Street, Frank Avenue, Raguet Street, Ellis Avenue, Kiln Avenue, Bynum Street, Hill Street, and Douglas Street. Several vehicles were stalled in high water at various intersections in Lufkin.
May 2021Flash FloodClawson-Water rose to the hoods of several vehicle stranded on Raguet Street at the intersection of Jefferson Avenue, with the road impassable. Portions of Frank Avenue were also impassable.
May 2021Flash FloodClawson-FM2497, FM 328, FM 1669, Highway 103 West near Newman Road, FM 1475, FM 706 at Cranford Creek, and FM 2109 were flooded and closed. Highway 69 North was flooded.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindClawson-Numerous trees and power lines were downed all along the Highway 69 corridor from Pollok to Lufkin. Multiple power outages were associated with this wind damage.
December 2018FloodClawson-Highway 69 North near Massingill's Meat Market was flooded.
May 2015Flash FloodClawson-Flash flooding was reported along FM. 706 north of the Hudson community.
May 2015Flash FloodClawson-Flash flooding was reported along FM. 2021 just off of Hwy. 69 north of the Hudson community.
May 2015Flash FloodClawson-Widespread city street flooding was reported across all of the Lufkin area resulting in numerous road closures.
May 2015Flash FloodClawson-Flooding of Hwy. 69 was reported north northeast of Lufkin, Texas.

Every storm recorded in Angelina 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
Central2.0 miles13
Woodlawn2.4 miles11
Durant2.5 miles13
Cedar Grove3.3 miles15
Keltys3.5 miles11
Redland3.8 miles15
Davisville4.4 miles15
Pollok5.3 miles13

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 ClawsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110443100The 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 1381647. 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.