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Hoover, Texas

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Lefors census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79065. The Survey maps it on the Hoover quadrangle.

Hoover within Gray County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

26 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Hoover between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,140 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2014103
2 August 2006Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2014084
6 June 2014Natural50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2014083
16 June 2006Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 June 2006Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service292020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gray County

Storms near this place

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoover in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 13 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 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 2020HailHoover-An mPING report of one-inch diameter hail was received.
May 2020HailHoover-An mPING report of one-inch diameter hail was received.
May 2019HailHoover-Hail between the size of quarters and golf balls reported along hwy 60 between Pampa and Miami. The time of occurrence is based on radar. Time was corrected from previous report.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHoover-Trained spotter estimates 80 mph wind gust.
November 2015Tornado (EF1)Hoover-The details of this tornado track was primarily based on video and photo evidence, and radar data. This tornado was produced by the same supercell which caused the tornado near Groom and the tornado near Pampa which destroyed the Halliburton Plant. Damage from this particular tornado was limited to broken wooden utility poles in Roberts County. The tornado was rated EF-1 with an estimated maximum wind speed of 100 mph. The tornado continued from Gray County into Roberts County.
May 2015Flash FloodHoover-Law enforcement and trained spotters reported flash flooding on the Thut Creek in Lefors making parts of 1st and 2nd street impassible, along County Road 17 and on Farm to Market 2300. Water was flowing across Highway 60 at the Hoover cutoff.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Hoover-The tornado remained over open country. The path length and path width were estimated. No damage or injuries were reported.
June 2017HailHoover-no account filed
May 2010HailHoover-no account filed
May 2009HailHoover-no account filed
June 2008HailHoover-no account filed
June 2008HailHoover-no account filed
May 2003HailHoover-no account filed
May 2003HailHoover-no account filed
February 2000HailHoover-no account filed
May 2000HailHoover-no account filed
May 1997HailHoover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gray 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
Heaton3.9 miles5
Mesilla Park5.7 miles5
Pampa7.0 miles5
Lefors11.1 miles5
Wesco12.0 miles5
Laketon12.1 miles5
Kingsmill Camp12.1 miles6
Bowers City12.6 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.

Wikidata item Q106670474The 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 1379955. 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.