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Edmonson, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Plainview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79032. The Survey maps it on the Edmonson quadrangle. 86 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,504 feet above sea level.

Edmonson within Hale County

Population over time

3 figures

Edmonson fell from 123 to 86 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000123
2010111-12 (-10%)
202086-25 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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 Edmonson between 2006 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 July 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011058
17 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1424 & FM 214 HAY FIRE
24 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2020020
6 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 194 & FM 2881
5 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale County

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edmonson in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 12 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindEdmonson$5,000no account filed
July 1994HailEdmonson$5,000no account filed
April 2026HailEdmonson-Local broadcast media relayed a report of half dollar size hail five miles east of Edmonson.
May 2023FloodEdmonson-A thunderstorm very slowly moved over central and southern Swisher County which brought heavy rainfall for several hours. Interstate 27 was closed due to flooding between Tulia and Kress.
May 2021HailEdmonson-A report was received of golf ball size hail about seven miles northwest of Cotton Center. No damage was reported.
April 2009HailEdmonson-Local newspaper reports indicate that large hail covered the ground in Edmonson, and that a combination of accumulating hail and heavy rainfall caused water to pond over Texas Highway 194 northwest of the town. No damage was reported.
April 2009Heavy RainEdmonson-Local newspaper reports indicate that a combination of accumulating hail and heavy rainfall resulted in water covering portions of Texas Highway 194 northwest of Edmonson. No damage was reported.
April 2009HailEdmonson-Multiple reports of large hail up to the size of half dollars were received from just north of Edmonson to near Plaiview. This swath of hail accompanied a developing supercell thunderstorm that tracked across northern Hale County.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindEdmonson-A city official estimated severe thunderstorm wind gusts up to 60 MPH with blowing dust in Edmonson. No damage was reported.
October 2018FloodEdmonson-no account filed
May 2005HailEdmonson-no account filed
May 2005HailEdmonson-no account filed
June 2005HailEdmonson-no account filed
June 2005HailEdmonson-no account filed
August 2004HailEdmonson-no account filed
May 2002HailEdmonson-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindEdmonson-no account filed
June 1995Tornado (F0)Edmonson-no account filed
May 1995HailEdmonson-no account filed
June 1995Tornado (F0)Edmonson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hale 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
Wright4.3 miles7
Boone5.3 miles8
Halfway7.1 miles7
Wasson8.6 miles8
Finney9.8 miles7
Seth Ward12.2 miles7
Plainview12.3 miles7
Mayfield13.0 miles7

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 EdmonsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978108The 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 1356826. 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.