Floydada, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Floydada census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79235. The Survey maps it on the Floydada quadrangle. 2,675 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,182 feet above sea level.
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Population over time
2 figuresFloydada fell from 3,038 to 2,675 between 2010 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,038 | |
| 2020 | 2,675 | -363 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1965 USGS Floydada quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
78 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Floydada between 2006 and 2018, burning about 4,914 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined | 46 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 7 August 2006 | Natural | 320 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 15 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 15 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 15 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 11 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 10 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 167 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Floydada in 167 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 94 hail, 54 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 4 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 | Floydada | 1 hurt, $80,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Floydada | $300,000 | Baseball size hail was reported in town. The hail damaged automobiles and the roofs of many homes. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $150,000 | Spotters affiliated with the Floyd County Sheriff's office estimated 60 to 70 mph winds in town. The wind damaged the roofs of several homes and businesses, destroyed several center pivot irrigation systems, snapped at least 56 power poles and blew down trees. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $100,000 | The Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet station at Floydada measured a wind gust to 84 mph. There were several reports of storm damage in Floydada. The roof was damaged to the Floyd County Historical Museum as well as a gas station. Also, the building sustained water damage with several inches of standing water inside the building. A couple of semi-trailers were blown over in addition to several large tree limbs and power poles downed in Floydada. Snow plows were additionally deployed in Floydada to remove wind-blown and drifting small hail that covered roadways. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Floydada | $100,000 | A Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet station near Floydada recorded 2.60 inches of rainfall in a thirty minute period just before 22:00 CST. By 22:05 CST, the heavy rainfall began to cause a rapid rise of water in the city. A number of homes and businesses were threatened by the rising water. Water isolated the Dairy Queen, along with a few mobile homes and the ACE Hardware store. Road crews had to repair damage caused by the water on some main city streets. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Floydada | $100,000 | The Floyd County Sheriff's office reported golfball size hail. The hail damaged automobiles and the roofs of homes. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $80,000 | As severe thunderstorms and their associated damaging winds spread northeastward into southern Floyd County, at least fifteen medium voltage utility poles were snapped. Some of the poles were broken up to ten feet from their base. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Floydada | $80,000 | A (landspout) tornado was reported by storm spotters near the Sandhill community. The tornado remained nearly stationary over farmland for its entire lifetime, destroying a couple center pivot irrigation systems. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Floydada | $75,000 | Many reports of flash flooding were received from near the Hale and Floyd County line northeastward to Floydada. Many secondary roads were inundated by flowing flood waters including Farm to Market Road 54. In Floydada, a playa lake on the south side of the city flooded and caused high water to threaten a number of mobile homes and two businesses. High water also flowed over Highway 62 south of the city. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Floydada | $75,000 | Law enforcement officials reported golfball size hail. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Floydada | $50,000 | Law enforcement officials reported golfball size hail. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Floydada | $50,000 | Storm spotters reported golfball size hail. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Floydada | $50,000 | Fire department storm spotters reported golfball size hail. |
| April 1999 | Lightning | Floydada | $50,000 | Lightning struck a house and started a fire that resulted in considerable damage. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $50,000 | no account filed |
| December 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $25,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind damaged roofs in town and blew down trees and power poles. |
| September 2008 | Flood | Floydada | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Floydada | $20,000 | Golfball size hail was reported in Cedar Hill. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $15,000 | At 20:15 CST, local law enforcement officials estimated that thunderstorm wind gusts exceeded 65 mph in Floydada. A National Weather Service survey team found a swath of wind damage from immediately south of Floydada to approximately eight miles east of town along U.S. Highway 62/70. Large sections of corn were reportedly blown over by the winds and several utility poles were snapped. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $15,000 | The Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet site near Floydada recorded a peak wind gust of 66 mph as a gust front raced southward in advance of a severe convective complex over Floyd County. Local officials reported that numerous street signs were downed and several tin roofs sustained damage. Tree damage was additionally reported to be widespread. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Floydada | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $15,000 | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Lightning | Floydada | $10,000 | Lighting struck a radio antenna near Floydada. Damage resulting from the lighting strike left local law enforcement without radio communication through the night. |
| May 2007 | Lightning | Floydada | $10,000 | A lightning strike in Floydada damaged the electrical grid and caused an outage that affected more than 1,000 customers for several hours. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew the roof off of a barn. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Floydada | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Floydada | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $1,000 | Law enforcement in Floyd County reported that a car port had been destroyed by thunderstorm winds. |
| March 1993 | Hail | Floydada | $500 | The Lubbock County storm moved northeast into Floyd County. Golfball-size hail was reported by the Floyd County Sheriff's Office near the Mc Coy community and in Floydada. No significant damage was observed. ~ Cottle County 9 NE Paducah,29,1613CST,,,0,0,0,0,Hail (1.50) The public reported hail slightly smaller than golfball-size near the Swearingen community. No damage resulted. |
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | $250 | A COOP observer reported a three to four inch diameter tree limb down in southwest Floydada as an estimated 65 mph wind gust occurred. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | - | A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Floydada measured severe wind gusts from 1818 CST through 1856 CST. A peak wind gust of 64 mph was measured at 1856 CST. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | - | A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Floydada measured severe wind gusts enhanced by a cold front from 2209 CST through 2210 CST. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Floydada | - | Law enforcement in the city of Floydada reported half dollar size hail. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Floydada | - | Several reports were received from Floydada of hail ranging in size from golf ball to two inches in diameter. No damage was reported. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Floydada | - | An NWS cooperative weather observer reported quarter size hail southeast of Floydada. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Floydada | - | An NWS cooperative weather observer near Floydada observed quarter size hail with the first of two thunderstorms that moved through the area. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Floydada | - | An NWS cooperative weather observer near Floydada observed two inch size hail with the second of two thunderstorms that moved through the area. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Floydada | - | An NWS cooperative weather observer southeast of Floydada reported hail up to golf ball size. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | - | A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Floydada measured severe wind gusts from 1851 CST through 1855 CST. A peak wind gust of 62 mph was measured at 1851 CST. |
| October 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | - | A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Floydada measured a wind gust of 58 mph. |
| October 2023 | Hail | Floydada | - | A report was received of hail up to quarter size in the town of Floydada. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | - | A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Floydada measured severe wind gusts from decaying thunderstorms from 1326 CST through 1327 CST. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Floydada | - | Local broadcast media relayed a report of quarter size hail in Floydada. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | - | A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Floydada measured a wind gust of 58 mph. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Floydada | - | An NWS cooperative weather observer reported golf ball size hail approximately nine miles southeast of Floydada. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | - | A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Floydada measured severe wind gusts from 0732 CST through 0740 CST. A peak wind gust of 62 mph was measured at 0740 CST. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | - | A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet near Floydada measured a peak wind gust of 67 mph at 1935 CST. Severe wind gusts were observed from 1930 through 1935 CST. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Floydada | - | Reports on social media depicted hail up to two inches in diameter from about eight miles west of Floydada to about nine miles southwest of Floydada. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Floydada | - | A swath of severe hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter fell in and near Floydada. Damage information was not available. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Floydada | - | Law enforcement in Floydada reported half dollar size hail. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Floydada | - | A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Floydada measured a peak wind gust to 60 mph. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Floydada | - | An NWS cooperative weather observer reported quarter size hail. No damage was reported. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Floydada | - | A NWS cooperative weather observer reported hail up to ping pong ball size nine miles southeast of Floydada. No damage was reported. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Floydada | - | A NWS cooperative weather observer reported quarter size hail in Floydada. No damage was reported. |
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.
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 Floydada | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q975828 | 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 1357507. 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.


