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Grayback, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Harrold-Oklaunion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76360. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grayback quadrangle.

Grayback within Wilbarger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Grayback between 2008 and 2020, burning about 206 acres in total. 1 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 use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1

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
29 July 2020Natural26 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROCK CREEK
11 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePASTURE
29 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWAGGONER MARE PATURE
29 May 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROCK CREEK OIL FIELD
18 April 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRAYBACK FIRE
3 January 2008Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 January 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWAGGONER RANCH #1
19 January 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilbarger County

Storms near this place

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grayback in 33 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 24 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flood. 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 2003HailGrayback$250A motorist driving on Highway 283 reported damage to windshield.
April 2021Tornado (EFU)Grayback-Three storm chasers reported a tornado that was observed from a long distance. The tornado lasted about a minute, and produced no known damage, so the location is estimated.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindGrayback-A storm chaser observed a destroyed metal barn and power poles snapped about 6 miles northwest of Grayback. All of the damage and debris was observed to be from west to east.
May 2015HailGrayback-Nickel to quarters with some half dollars mixed in.
May 2013HailGrayback-Reported via Nssl Shave Project.
October 2006FloodGrayback-Moderate flooding occurred along Beaver Creek in southern Wilbarger and southwestern Wichita counties on October 15-17. Storm total precipitation amounts of 3 to 6 inches kept Beaver Creek in flood for over 2 days. Beaver Creek crested at 27.4 feet, 3.4 feet above flood stage, at 8:30 am CST on October 16, and remained above flood stage from 2:00 pm CST on October 15 until 11:45 pm CST on October 17. Some secondary roads and agricultural lands near the creek were inundated during this period.
May 2025HailGrayback-no account filed
April 2021HailGrayback-no account filed
April 2021HailGrayback-no account filed
May 2012HailGrayback-no account filed
June 2009HailGrayback-no account filed
March 2008HailGrayback-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindGrayback-no account filed
June 2003HailGrayback-no account filed
June 2003HailGrayback-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindGrayback-no account filed
May 2003HailGrayback-no account filed
February 2000HailGrayback-no account filed
October 2000Thunderstorm WindGrayback-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGrayback-no account filed
May 1999HailGrayback-no account filed
May 1999HailGrayback-no account filed
October 1997HailGrayback-no account filed
April 1995HailGrayback-no account filed
April 1995HailGrayback-no account filed
April 1995HailGrayback-no account filed
June 1995HailGrayback-no account filed
April 1995Tornado (F0)Grayback-no account filed
May 1993HailGrayback-no account filed
May 1993HailGrayback-no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindGrayback-no account filed
May 1993HailGrayback-no account filed
May 1993HailGrayback-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wilbarger 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
Rock Crossing1.5 miles7
Midway Crossing2.7 miles7
Hoot and Holler Crossing4.3 miles7
Oklaunion9.7 miles9
Harrold9.8 miles11
Vernon12.3 miles9
Lockett12.5 miles10
Elliott12.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1358356. 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.