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Frankel City, Texas

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Andrews North census division. The Survey maps it on the Frankel City quadrangle.

Frankel City within Andrews County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

81 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Frankel City between 2005 and 2016, burning about 4,472 acres in total. 9 started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Natural9
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
28 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFLARE FIRE 4
26 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use18 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011539
26 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2011540
2 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use69 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNW 5001 FIRE
16 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNIVERSITY Q FIRE
14 September 2010Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2010286
13 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Andrews County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Frankel City: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Natural Gas, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
South Fullerton Sulfur PlantNatural Gas, SulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Andrews County

Storms near this place

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frankel City in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 18 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindFrankel City$20,000A land owner reported that a 4 foot tree was blown over and several 4 to 5 inch tree limbs were broken. In addition, the roof of a 30' by 50' barn was torn off and some of the home's roof shingles were damaged.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindFrankel City$10,000A thunderstorm moved over Andrews County and produced a 70 mph wind gust five miles south southwest of Frankel City. These winds blew a telephone pole down on a car. The cost for the damage is a rough estimate.
January 2005Thunderstorm WindFrankel City$10,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew a vehicle off of Texas Highway 176 in western Andrews County. The driver of the vehicle reported that small hail accompanied the severe winds. No injuries were reported.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindFrankel City$8,000A thunderstorm moved over Andrews County and produced a 70 mph wind gust that knocked down telephone poles 0.25 miles east of Frankel City. The cost of the damage is an estimate.
June 2012Tornado (EF1)Frankel City$6,000A severe thunderstorm moved across Andrews County and produced a tornado about an eighth of a mile east of Frankle City, TX. A National Weather Service employee spotted the damage at about 9:30 PM CDT. The damage consisted of one power pole bent at a 60 degree angle to the south of FM1967 with power lines about ten feet above the road. A power pole to the north of the first one was snapped, and another power pole was bent slightly. Based on radar data, the circulation was over the affected area around 8:58 PM CDT, and the tornado was rated an EF-1 based on the damage reported. Since no other damage was reported, the path length and time were an estimate.
September 2014Flash FloodFrankel City$500Heavy rain moved across Andrews County and produced flash flooding just southeast of Frankel City. There was water over the intersection of State Highway 176 and County Road NW 5001. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
June 2023HailFrankel City-Two-inch hail was observed along Ranch Rd 181.
June 2022HailFrankel City-A thunderstorm produced hail up to golf ball size 15 miles south of Frankel City. There were accumulated hail piles several inches deep and covering the road.
October 2010HailFrankel City-Quarter sized hail occurred just west of the intersection of FM 3901 and SH 176. Cotton crop damage was reported, but the acreage was unknown.
March 2004HailFrankel City-A rather prolonged severe weather episode began late in the evening of the 3rd. The first severe thunderstorm to develop resulted in nickel size hail near the rural community of Frankel City in Andrews County.
April 2004Flash FloodFrankel City-Flooding was reported at a guardhouse in western Andrews county. Additionally, reports indicated several feet of water on field roads.
November 2004HailFrankel City-Pea to nickel size hail covered the ground in portions of northwestern Andrews County.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindFrankel City-Hail to the size of quarters and 60 MPH winds were reported along the Texas/New Mexico border between Eunice and Frankel City.
June 1999HailFrankel City-The left-split cell of a storm that formed over Loving County, TX, moved to the northeast into southern Lea County, NM. The storm continued to the northeast, just missing Eunice, then dropped more hail in the northwest corner of Andrews County, TX. The storm quickly weakened after moving into Gaines County.
May 2022HailFrankel City-no account filed
May 2022HailFrankel City-no account filed
June 2022HailFrankel City-no account filed
June 2013HailFrankel City-no account filed
March 2006HailFrankel City-no account filed
October 2002HailFrankel City-no account filed
March 2000HailFrankel City-no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindFrankel City-no account filed
March 2000HailFrankel City-no account filed
May 1999HailFrankel City-no account filed
May 1997HailFrankel City-no account filed
September 1996HailFrankel City-no account filed
September 1995HailFrankel City-no account filed
September 1995Thunderstorm WindFrankel City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Andrews 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
Shafter Lake (historical)6.3 miles5
Florey11.2 miles5
Andrews13.3 miles5
McKinney Acres14.6 miles5
Waldon Place Windmill17.6 miles5
Coyote Corner19.4 miles5
Old Place Windmills19.6 miles5
Sixteen Corner Windmill28.1 miles5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378322. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.