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Eola, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Eola-Paint Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76866. The Survey maps it on the Eola quadrangle. It stands 1,808 feet above sea level.

Eola within Concho County

On record in Eola

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

15 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Eola between 2006 and 2020, burning about 166 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
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
19 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOXLEY RD AND 87 #2
1 August 2009Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePOWELL LANE AND KKOTRLA RD
1 July 2020Natural67 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePHINNY RD
9 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVIC LOOP
25 June 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROBERTS RD AND OXLEY RD
15 June 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12616 U.S. 87 SOUTH
11 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVICK LOOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Concho County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eola in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 10 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash 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
June 1995Thunderstorm WindEola$20,000A two week period of frequent severe weather came to a close on the 10th. A weak tornado was reported by the Terry County Sheriff's Office in east Brownfield. It caused about $20 thousand in damages and tossed a large metal shed about 275 feet and destroyed it. Otherwise, there were numerous reports of dime to golf ball-size hail, especially in Hale, Lubbock, and Floyd Counties. Baseball-size hail was reported close to Guthrie by the King County Sheriff's Office, but caused no known damage. In northern Dickens County, a female was injured after being struck by lightning. She suffered superficial burns, plus headaches, soreness, and numbness for several days. It was foggy and storms were at least five miles away at the time of theincident. She had been standing in her backyard just 50 to 100 feet away from several large trees and an antenna.
May 1995Tornado (F0)Eola$20,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindEola$10,000A barn was destroyed by high winds
April 2011HailEola$5,000The large hail shattered four windows, the siding and the roof of a mobile home. The hail also broke all of the windows on a truck.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindEola-Strong thunderstorm winds produced significant damage to an outbuilding near the old Eola School.
April 2011HailEola-Larger than baseball size hail fell along Ranch Road 765.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Eola-Spotters reported tornado over open country in Western Concho County.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindEola-A sheriff deputy estimated winds at 70 mph across central Concho County.
June 2019HailEola-no account filed
April 2008HailEola-no account filed
May 2008HailEola-no account filed
March 2007HailEola-no account filed
April 2007HailEola-no account filed
April 2006HailEola-no account filed
May 2006HailEola-no account filed
June 2003Flash FloodEola-no account filed
May 1997HailEola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Concho 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
Vick4.0 miles11
Henderson Chapel5.0 miles11
Lowake11.6 miles15
Paint Rock11.7 miles14
Concho17.5 miles16
Millersview17.7 miles12
Eden18.0 miles11
Live Oak19.8 miles12

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 EolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3470474The 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 1357044. 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.