BlockFriendship, Texas
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lamesa Southwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79331. The Survey maps it on the Patricia NE quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 6 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 Hobbs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Patricia NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Seminole quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Seminole quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Friendship between 2015 and 2017, burning about 210 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 June 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LOVE FIRE |
| 23 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RAY FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Friendship in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2010: 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Friendship | - | A trained spotter took a photo of a short lived rope tornado near the city of Lamesa, TX. The tornado's track, duration and approximate position were all estimated according to radar data. No damage was reported with this weak tornado. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Friendship | - | A brief tornado was reported by a local storm chaser. Estimated loction of the vortex was 2.5 miles west of the intersection of Texas State Highways 349 and 137. No damage was reported. |
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Friendship | - | Intersection of Farm to Market Roads 829 and 2051 floods due to very heavy rains. |
| August 1997 | Flash Flood | Friendship | - | Very heavy rains from thunderstorms flooded the intersection of FM 2051 and FM 829 in the Friendship community of southwestern Dawson County. The intersection flooded up to 3 feet deep with both water and thick mud. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Friendship | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Friendship | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378333. 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.