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Enloe, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cooper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75432. The Survey maps it on the Cooper North quadrangle. It stands 495 feet above sea level.

Enloe within Delta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

58 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Enloe between 2005 and 2018, burning about 395 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2017Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 24 N FIRE
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY.19
7 August 2013Debris and open burning3.5 acresNational Forests And Grasslands In TexasUNIT 18 FIRE
6 August 2006Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4215
3 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2949
15 August 2018Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 198 W

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Enloe in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 7 injuries. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindEnloe7 hurt, $150,000Thunderstorm wind damage due to 80 mph winds was observed across northern Delta County from the Enloe area to the Lake Creek area. The damage started along FM 128, extending east to just past a warehouse business near FM 1335 and Hwy 19. Damage consisted of notable tree damage and structural damage to house roofs and metal roofs. A home near FM 2675 and FM 2949N had windows broken due to wind driven hail. Several trees on the property were uprooted and/or snapped, too. Local officials reported 7 people were injured from the wind driven hail.
January 2020Tornado (EF0)Enloe$5,000The same supercell that produced the earlier Cooper tornado moved northeast about 4 miles and spawned a second very brief tornado near Enloe, in northern Delta County. The tornado touched down in an open field just southeast of Enloe, destroying a couple of small outbuildings and scattering the debris downwind a few hundred yards. The debris pattern exhibited a subtle cyclonic orientation, implying a brief, weak tornado. The tornado was rated an EF-0 with maximum winds of 75 mph.
January 2025Flash FloodEnloe$2,000Several roads were closed due to high water near the city of Cooper including FM 1529, FM 3388, and FM 1531.
April 2025Flash FloodEnloe-A mPing report for flooding was received from the city of Cooper.
April 2025Flash FloodEnloe-Emergency management reported several county road closures near Cooper including the following: FM 2068, FM 128, FM 1529, and FM 71. State Highway 24 North on the southbound lanes was also closed due to flooding on the low bridge.
April 2017HailEnloe-Emergency management reported half dollar sized hail in the city of Enloe, TX.
March 2008HailEnloe-The sherriff's office relayed a report of nickel-size hail near Enloe.
June 1997Flash FloodEnloe-Highway 198 was reported flooded.
February 2022HailEnloe-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindEnloe-no account filed
May 1996HailEnloe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
Crossroads2.7 miles8
Mount Joy3.5 miles8
Prattville3.7 miles8
Post Oak3.8 miles8
Lake Creek3.8 miles8
Mount Joy Crossing4.1 miles8
Cooper4.4 miles8
Price4.6 miles8

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 EnloeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5379094The 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 1357032. 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.