Friendship, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sudan-Amherst census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79371. The Survey maps it on the Beck quadrangle.

Friendship within Lamb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Beck quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Levelland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

31 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Friendship between 2006 and 2016, burning about 10,918 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 3 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
Natural	20
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
7 August 2009	Natural	60 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2009063
6 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS 2011-40
3 August 2016	Natural	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2016081
15 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS14-19
11 August 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS 2011-42
11 August 2011	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS 2011-41
11 August 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS 2011-44
29 July 2011	Natural	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS 2011-39

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamb County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Friendship in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 2 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2025	Tornado (EFU)	Friendship	-	Numerous storm chasers and Texas Tech University researchers observed a large dusty tornado that tracked from eastern Bailey County into western Lamb County. The tornado became multi-vortex for a short time, then became occluded toward the end of its life cycle. Several small gustnadoes were also observed along the rear-flank gust front. No reports of damage were received.
May 2017	Hail	Friendship	-	No damage was reported.
June 2012	Hail	Friendship	-	A NWS employee reported intermittent quarter-size hail for three minutes. No damage was reported.

Every storm recorded in Lamb 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
Beck	2.9 miles	7
Sudan	6.1 miles	9
Amherst	8.5 miles	9
Cofferville	13.2 miles	9
Littlefield	14.1 miles	8
Lums Chapel	16.9 miles	7
Fieldton	18.9 miles	9
Earth	19.0 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379808. 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.