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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.

Grassland within Lynn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 2006

Regional 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
7 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMIKE ORN FARM
2 August 2007Natural100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSLAND COOP
25 May 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBARN BURN
18 April 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 April 2013Arson/incendiarism320 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR FF & FM 212
15 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,000 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOUBLE U RANCH
13 April 2007Natural120 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lynn County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2016Thunderstorm WindGrassland$9,000The 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 2000Thunderstorm WindGrassland$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several power poles.
May 2020HailGrassland-A report was received of ping ping ball size hail about ten miles east of Tahoka along US Highway 380.
May 2018HailGrassland-Hail up to the size of golf balls fell at the Co-op gin in Grassland. No damage was reported.
May 2018HailGrassland-Hail up to quarter size was reported along US Highway 380 north of Grassland.
May 2016HailGrassland-The fire department in Grassland reported hail up to baseball size south of town.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindGrassland-The public reported that thunderstorm winds downed large tree limbs just north of Grassland.
September 2005HailGrassland-Citizen located 5 miles north of Draw.
May 2001HailGrassland-Wind-driven hail devastated crops.
June 2005HailGrassland-no account filed
June 2003HailGrassland-no account filed
April 2001HailGrassland-no account filed
September 1999HailGrassland-no account filed
May 1999HailGrassland-no account filed
June 1994HailGrassland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lynn 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
New Lynn6.3 miles7
Draw8.9 miles7
Tahoka10.6 miles8
Skeen11.3 miles7
Wilson14.2 miles7
Wayside17.1 miles9
O'Donnell17.3 miles9
Wells18.9 miles7

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 GrasslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5597555The 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.