Hindman, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lamesa Northeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79351. The Survey maps it on the Gooch Lake quadrangle.

Hindman within Dawson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Gooch Lake quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lamesa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hindman in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2025	Flash Flood	Hindman	-	A report was received from the public via mPING of street flooding southwest of O'Donnell near/along US 87. The time of occurrence is estimated from radar. No reports of damage were received.
November 2016	Hail	Hindman	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dawson 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
Hancock	4.7 miles	8
Arvana	5.6 miles	8
Grandview	6.5 miles	8
Punkin Center	9.4 miles	6
Lamesa	11.0 miles	8
Pride	11.1 miles	6
Key	11.7 miles	8
Los Ybanez	11.7 miles	8

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 Hindman	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65048948	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 1378455. 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.

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.