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.
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
Eola Schoollisted 2005
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Eola quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Eola quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 2006Regional 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 burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OXLEY RD AND 87 #2 |
| 1 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | POWELL LANE AND KKOTRLA RD |
| 1 July 2020 | Natural | 67 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PHINNY RD |
| 9 June 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VIC LOOP |
| 25 June 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROBERTS RD AND OXLEY RD |
| 15 June 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 12616 U.S. 87 SOUTH |
| 11 June 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VICK LOOP |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eola | $20,000 | A 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 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Eola | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eola | $10,000 | A barn was destroyed by high winds |
| April 2011 | Hail | Eola | $5,000 | The 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eola | - | Strong thunderstorm winds produced significant damage to an outbuilding near the old Eola School. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Eola | - | Larger than baseball size hail fell along Ranch Road 765. |
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Eola | - | Spotters reported tornado over open country in Western Concho County. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eola | - | A sheriff deputy estimated winds at 70 mph across central Concho County. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Eola | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Eola | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Eola | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Eola | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Eola | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Eola | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Eola | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Eola | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Eola | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vick | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Henderson Chapel | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Lowake | 11.6 miles | 15 | |
| Paint Rock | 11.7 miles | 14 | |
| Concho | 17.5 miles | 16 | |
| Millersview | 17.7 miles | 12 | |
| Eden | 18.0 miles | 11 | |
| Live Oak | 19.8 miles | 12 |
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 Eola | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3470474 | The 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.






