Hurlwood, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lubbock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79407. The Survey maps it on the Wolfforth quadrangle.

Hurlwood within Lubbock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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 Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Wolfforth quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Wolfforth SE quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Levelland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Wolfforth quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

191 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Hurlwood between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,273 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	63
Debris and open burning	61
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Railroad operations and maintenance	14
Smoking	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Other causes	3
Fireworks	1
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2010	Natural	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2010-75
7 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2015-106
3 September 2012	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2012-87
20 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 September 2015	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	2015-102
16 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2011-102
5 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	2016-89
29 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	9300 19TH STREET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lubbock County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hurlwood in 2 storm reports in 2014: 2 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 2014	Flood	Hurlwood	$15,000	Torrential rains resulted in widespread flooding of playa lakes, streets and roads throughout far southwest Lubbock County, or generally from Wolfforth and points south. Roads such as Brownfield Highway and County Roads 179 and 41 had several sections that at times became impassable by car. One sedan was disabled by floodwaters near Farm-to-Market Road 1585 and Brownfield Highway shortly after midnight CST. A daycare school in Wolfforth reported water of two feet deep throughout the building which would necessitate a complete remodeling of the walls and carpeting. The floodwaters gradually receded from area roads by early Sunday morning, although some tertiary roads remained overwhelmed by playa lakes for several days to follow. Damage to recently planted cotton and grain crops was particularly severe as tens of thousands of acres were washed away from the heavy rains and flooding. Area farmers will likely replant with sorghum as the cotton planting deadline had passed. Estimated crop damage and losses due to flooding will likely reach $100M.
May 2014	Flood	Hurlwood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lubbock 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
Reese Village	1.5 miles	9
Carlisle	3.2 miles	10
West Carlisle	3.4 miles	10
West End Place	4.7 miles	10
Wolfforth	5.1 miles	9
Doud	5.6 miles	10
Broadview	7.2 miles	10
Shallowater	8.0 miles	10

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 Hurlwood	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122589023	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 1359848. 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.