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Groom, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the White Deer-Groom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79039. The Survey maps it on the Groom quadrangle. 552 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,255 feet above sea level.

Groom within Carson County

Population over time

2 figures

Groom fell from 574 to 552 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010574
2020552-22 (-4%)

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.

Fires near this place

15 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Groom between 2006 and 2018, burning about 1,286 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
8 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 May 2006Natural350 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 April 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution21 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWINDSONG-SOUTH
3 March 2007Natural342 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carson County

Storms near this place

60 of 84 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Groom in 84 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 57 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 1997Thunderstorm WindGroom$100,000Carson County Sheriff's Office reported tree and roof damage.
April 2007Tornado (EF2)Groom$72,000This tornado formed nine miles east northeast of Claude at 2035 CST and entered Carson county at 2037 CST one and a half miles southwest of Groom. The tornado tracked north and traveled about another ten miles before dissipating at 2110 CST ten miles east of Panhandle. In Carson county...the tornado plowed through a storage area for tractors and other farm equipment. Tractors...turbines...vehicles...cotton presser box cars similar to railroad cars were moved and thrown about in the tornado for considerable distances. Power poles were also damaged. No injuries were reported.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGroom$60,000Local law enforcement officials reported that a tractor trailer rig was blown off the road at mile marker 113 on Interstate 40 by a thunderstorm wind gust. There were no reports of injuries or fatalities.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGroom$25,000Large portions of a roof blown off home several trees were downed.
August 2009HailGroom$5,000A trained spotter reported broken windshields and dented vehicles in Groom due to the large hail.
May 2020HailGroom-This hail was observed 4 miles west of Groom.
June 2020Tornado (EF0)Groom-A storm chaser video documented a brief landspout which occurred 3 miles west-southwest of Groom, touching down and then lifting after one minute. The rating assigned was EF-0 due to the lack of damage to any structures impacted.
June 2020HailGroom-Quarter to golf ball size hail, with several inches of accumulation, fell 2 miles west-northwest of Groom alongside Interstate-40.
June 2020Tornado (EF0)Groom-A storm chaser documented a landspout tornado touchdown 3 miles west of Groom, crossing Interstate-40 before dissipating just north of the freeway. The rating assigned was EF-0 due to the lack of damage to any structures impacted.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGroom-A 58 mph wind gust was measured by broadcast media observation site. No significant damage was reported.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindGroom-Power outages reported in and around Groom. Tree limbs down across town. Schoolnet site in Groom reported a 58 MPH wind gust.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindGroom-Three inch diamter tree limbs knocked down from healthy tree.
May 2016HailGroom-Quarter size hail fell in Groom.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGroom-Wind gusts estimated up to 60 mph reported with thunderstorm.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindGroom-Winds gust of 59 MPH from the kvii schoolnet at friemel farms west-northwest of Groom.
November 2015Tornado (EF0)Groom-Storm chasers reported a brief touchdown just west of Groom. No damage was visible. The tornado was rated EF-0.
November 2015Tornado (EF2)Groom-This was the first of two tornadoes produced by this supercell. The most significant damage was to a sturdy steel constructed outbuilding which was completely destroyed. Damage to a nearby home included broken windows, removal of roof decking material and uplifting of the roof. 2 by 4 pieces of wood were embedded in the roof of the house. A large flat bed truck was moved 50 yards. This tornado was rated EF-2 with an estimated peak wind of 115 mph. The tornado continued into Gray County.
May 2015HailGroom-Quarter size hail was reported in Groom.
May 2014HailGroom-A diminishing thunderstorm moved into southern Carson County shortly before 6 PM CST. As the storm approached the town of Groom (Carson County), a trained storm spotter reported penny (0.75 inch) size hail. This storm continued to move to the northeast and diminished after producing this hail.
September 2013Heavy RainGroom-A broken line of thunderstorms moved across the Texas Panhandle during the evening hours of the 27th. This line of thunderstorms was able to tap into a highly moist atmosphere which allowed the production of heavy rain. The KVII Schoolnet site at Groom High School (Carson County) reported 1.02 inches of storm total accumulation with 0.84 inch falling with a half hour. This heavy rain across the county caused minor flooding of State Highway 60 between Panhandle and White Deer (Carson County). No swift water rescues or stranded vehicles were reported with this minor flooding.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindGroom-A trained spotter estimated the thunderstorm wind gusts two miles north of the town of Groom, Texas. No damage or injuries were reported.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGroom-A Carson County official estimated the thunderstorm wind gust in Groom Texas.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindGroom-An amateur radio operator estimated sixty-one knot thunderstorm wind gusts associated with a downburst one mile north of Groom Texas. No damage or injuries were reported.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGroom-A city official estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of fifty-two knots in Groom.
August 2009HailGroom-A trained spotter reported that the hail covered the ground.
March 2007HailGroom-Reported at Exit 102 on Interstate 40.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindGroom-Wind speed measured at the SchoolNet site in Groom.
April 2022HailGroom-no account filed
May 2022HailGroom-no account filed
June 2022HailGroom-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindGroom-no account filed
August 2018HailGroom-no account filed
April 2017HailGroom-no account filed
April 2017HailGroom-no account filed
April 2017HailGroom-no account filed
April 2017HailGroom-no account filed
April 2017HailGroom-no account filed
April 2017HailGroom-no account filed
April 2017HailGroom-no account filed
April 2017HailGroom-no account filed
April 2017HailGroom-no account filed
June 2017HailGroom-no account filed
July 2016HailGroom-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGroom-no account filed
July 2016HailGroom-no account filed
June 2012HailGroom-no account filed
April 2012HailGroom-no account filed
June 2012HailGroom-no account filed
June 2010HailGroom-no account filed
June 2010HailGroom-no account filed
June 2010HailGroom-no account filed
June 2010HailGroom-no account filed
June 2010HailGroom-no account filed
May 2010HailGroom-no account filed
May 2010HailGroom-no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindGroom-no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindGroom-no account filed
June 2009HailGroom-no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGroom-no account filed
August 2009HailGroom-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carson 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
Lark7.1 miles7
Conway14.5 miles8
Cuyler15.5 miles7
White Deer16.4 miles6
Panhandle17.5 miles6
Lee21.7 miles6
Cargray21.9 miles6
Abell22.8 miles6

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 GroomAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970966The 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 1358463. 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.