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Coble, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Levelland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79336. The Survey maps it on the Whiteface quadrangle.

Coble within Hockley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Coble between 2006 and 2019, burning about 7,282 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural1

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
18 May 2006Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,300 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGUSHER
4 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 303 & 300
2 March 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service19027
1 February 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1780 AND 303
30 December 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution1,920 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEST HOUSTON-TRANSPORT FIRE
16 January 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution681 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOXY OFFICE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hockley County

Storms near this place

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coble in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 flood, 1 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
June 2025HailCoble-Local broadcast media relayed a report of ping pong ball size hail east of Whiteface.
June 2023FloodCoble-Video evidence was sent to the forecast office in Lubbock of water rushing over Santa Fe Street east of Whiteface.
May 2022Tornado (EF2)Coble-A cyclic tornadic supercell produced several tornadoes over a period of approximately two hours. An NWS storm survey revealed that this supercell produced nine separate tornadoes. This tornado was the ninth and final tornado. The NWS storm survey team discovered several locations along Farm to Market Road 303 with wooden power poles snapped at the base and two pump jacks overturned. Maximum winds were estimated at 120 mph. The instantaneous width and center of the tornado was estimated from TTU-Kal radar data.
March 2020HailCoble-A swath of quarter size hail was reported along Texas Highway 114 from approximately five miles west of Levelland to Smyer. No damage was reported.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCoble-A temporary office trailer was rolled a couple hundred feet and demolished from straight line winds.
May 2013HailCoble-A storm chaser reported quarter size hail at the intersection of Highway 114 and Farm to Market Road 303. No damage was reported.
June 2013HailCoble-A SKYWARN spotter estimated quarter size hail two miles southeast of Whiteface. No damage was reported.
May 2008HailCoble-The severe storm that impacted Whiteface (Cochran County) moved eastward across portions of Hockley County. Numerous reports of large hail up to the size of golf balls generally along Texas Highway 114 from the Cochran and Hockley County line eastward to Levelland were relayed by the broadcast media. No damage was reported.
May 2015FloodCoble-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hockley 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
Levelland6.6 miles7
Pettit7.1 miles8
Sundown9.6 miles7
Opdyke West10.6 miles8
Clauene11.4 miles7
Opdyke12.1 miles8
Arnett13.2 miles7
Whitharral13.5 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379563. 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.