Grassland, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Tahoka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79373. The Survey maps it on the Grassland quadrangle. It stands 2,956 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 7 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
- 1970 USGS Grassland quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Slaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Grassland between 2006 and 2013, burning about 4,000 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MIKE ORN FARM |
| 2 August 2007 | Natural | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSLAND COOP |
| 25 May 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BARN BURN |
| 18 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 April 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 320 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR FF & FM 212 |
| 15 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,000 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DOUBLE U RANCH |
| 13 April 2007 | Natural | 120 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grassland in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 12 hail, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grassland | $9,000 | The fire department in Grassland reported three power poles downed by high winds near the intersection of Farm to Market Road 212 and County Road 24. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grassland | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several power poles. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Grassland | - | A report was received of ping ping ball size hail about ten miles east of Tahoka along US Highway 380. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Grassland | - | Hail up to the size of golf balls fell at the Co-op gin in Grassland. No damage was reported. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Grassland | - | Hail up to quarter size was reported along US Highway 380 north of Grassland. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Grassland | - | The fire department in Grassland reported hail up to baseball size south of town. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grassland | - | The public reported that thunderstorm winds downed large tree limbs just north of Grassland. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Grassland | - | Citizen located 5 miles north of Draw. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Grassland | - | Wind-driven hail devastated crops. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Grassland | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Grassland | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Grassland | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Grassland | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Grassland | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Grassland | - | 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.
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 Grassland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5597555 | 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 2034943. 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.


