Era, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Valley View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76238. The Survey maps it on the Era quadrangle. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Era within Cooke County

On record in Era

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

Thomason-Scott Houselisted 1980

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.

1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Era quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

136 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Era between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,088 acres in total. 10 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	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	44
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Natural	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
4 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASSFIRE
29 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
28 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
28 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
22 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.8 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASSFIRE BY LIGHTNING CR 397

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooke County

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Era in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Era	$300,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Fort Worth found that a downburst occurred in Cooke County. Widespread wind damage occurred to mobile homes and outbuildings, and several permanent buildings sustained roof damage. Mobile homes were rolled several times by the strong winds. Several metal industrial buildings and airport hangars were damaged...some extensively. Fifteen planes at the Gainesville Municipal Airport were damaged as they were pushed into each other. The roof of a motel was blown off just west of Interstate 35, and a porch of another motel just east of the Interstate was removed. Interstate 35 was shut down in both directions due to debris covering road. Power lines, signs, and trees were also knocked down. Garage doors were blown inside out. Winds speeds were generally 60 MPH, but likely reached as high as 90 MPH at some points in the damage path.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Era	$50,000	A large 5th wheel was tipped over onto a truck parked next to it, and a small wood shed on the same property was blown across the field.
March 2016	Hail	Era	$20,000	A trained spotter reported quarter to golf ball sized hail in the town of Era.
October 2019	Hail	Era	$10,000	A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail approximately 7 miles west of the city of Valley View, TX. Hail near 2 was also reported in this same approximate area by the public.
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Era	$7,000	On FM 51 south of Era, an RV was blown over and minor roof damage occurred to a home and nearby outbuildings.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Era	$5,000	Seventy MPH winds were estimated in Era which is between Valley View and Rosston.
April 2001	Tornado (F1)	Era	$5,000	The first of three tornadoes touched down 1 mile south of Era, moved northeast and dissipated approximately 4.5 miles northeast of Era. This tornado occurred in a thunderstorm ahead of a line of thunderstorms that produced the other two tornadoes. There was roof damage south of Era and signs and trees limbs blown down northeast of Era.
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Era	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds caused large tree branch damage north of Era, and one Yield sign was bent at the base.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Era	$1,000	Part of the metal roof of a barn was peeled off approximately 1.5 miles southeast of Era.
April 2014	Hail	Era	-	A public report of quarter sized hail was received 2 miles east of Era, TX.
May 2012	Hail	Era	-	Quarter sized hail covered the ground in Era.
April 2011	Hail	Era	-	Quarter sized hail fell in Era, which is approximately 5 miles west of Valley View.
May 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Era	-	A storm chaser videoed a tornado southwest of Gainesville for nearly 4 minutes. The tornado damaged some trees.
May 1997	Tornado (F1)	Era	-	Spotters reported a tornado northeast of Era. The tornado was on the ground for approximately 10 minutes and uprooted numerous large trees.
April 1994	Tornado (F0)	Era	-	A brief tornado was reported north of Era.
May 2024	Hail	Era	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Era	-	no account filed
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Era	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Era	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Era	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cooke 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lois	4.5 miles	8
Hood	4.6 miles	13
Leo	6.4 miles	8
Valley View	6.5 miles	8
Rosston	8.2 miles	8
Myra	9.0 miles	13
Prairie Point	9.9 miles	8
Lindsay	10.3 miles	13

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 Era	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5384767	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 1357049. 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.