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La Casa, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Breckenridge South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76470. The Survey maps it on the La Casa quadrangle.

La Casa within Stephens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

32 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of La Casa between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,103 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 132
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHERDFORD FIRE 207
27 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJONES FIRE
8 August 2014Natural55 acresTexas A & M Forest Service717 FIRE
13 August 2012Natural17 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOOK FIRE
12 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARMON RANCH
11 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJR. HAUER
10 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 717 SOUTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stephens County

Storms near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Casa in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
February 2026LightningLa Casa$2,400,000Videos and articles from social and news media reported that a wind turbine south of Caddo was struck by lightning the morning of February 14th and caught on fire as a result. As per pictures, the shell at the top of the turbine was destroyed along with one of the blades.
May 2009HailLa Casa$15,000A spotter reported Grapefruit size hail on Highway 207 5 miles west of Strawn. The spotter received damage to their vehicle.
May 2025HailLa Casa$12,000Tennis ball sized hail was reported in La Casa.
May 2015HailLa Casa$10,000Golf ball sized hail was reported, approximately 10 miles southeast of Caddo.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindLa Casa$5,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage and damage to metal outbuildings in the area around La Casa in the southeast part of the county.
May 2011HailLa Casa$1,000no account filed
May 2015HailLa Casa-no account filed
May 2003HailLa Casa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stephens 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
Frankell2.2 miles13
Necessity5.6 miles12
Wayland7.4 miles13
Caddo8.2 miles13
Gunsight10.5 miles13
Harpersville13.0 miles13
South Hanlon13.3 miles14
Breckenridge15.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378538. 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.