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Ladonia, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Ladonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75449. The Survey maps it on the Ladonia quadrangle. 597 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 627 feet above sea level.

Ladonia within Fannin County

On record in Ladonia

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Ladonia fell from 612 to 597 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
2010612
2020597-15 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

126 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Ladonia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,507 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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 ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONTROL BURN HWY 34
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 September 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE/TIRES ON FIRE
25 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4907 FIRE
22 September 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE/POS.STRUCTURES
22 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
18 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUFFSTICHLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ladonia in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 11 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2001Thunderstorm WindLadonia$15,000Some apartments and an outbuilding were unroofed.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindLadonia$10,000Heavy damage was reported in the town square.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindLadonia$5,000A barn was damaged by high thunderstorm wind.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLadonia$2,000Trees down around Ladonia.
August 2017Flash FloodLadonia$2,000Emergency management reported that 2 houses were flooded souotheast of the city of Ladonia, TX.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindLadonia$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down by high thunderstorm wind.
June 2023HailLadonia-Ping pong ball size hail was reported in Ladonia.
September 2023HailLadonia-Reported via mPing.
April 2022FloodLadonia-Low water crossings in Ladonia were flooded due to heavy rain.
May 2019HailLadonia-A trained spotter reported nickel to quarter size hail in the city of Ladonia, TX.
March 2017HailLadonia-Amateur radio reported half-dollar sized hail in the city of Ladonia.
May 2017HailLadonia-Amateur Radio reported half dollar size hail near Ladonia.
May 2017HailLadonia-Amateur Radio reported golf ball size hail near Ladonia.
December 2015FloodLadonia-A HAM radio operator reported several streets in Ladonia had water covering the surfaces.
May 2010Flash FloodLadonia-High water was reported over the roadway at the intersection of Highway 34 and FM 3900 in Ladonia. Highway 34 was also impassable in a few areas between the cities of Ladonia and Wolfe City. High water was also reported on city streets in the town of Leonard.
February 2022HailLadonia-no account filed
April 2011HailLadonia-no account filed
April 2011HailLadonia-no account filed
April 2005HailLadonia-no account filed
June 2001HailLadonia-no account filed
November 1994Thunderstorm WindLadonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Pleasant Grove2.1 miles8
Flat Prairie (historical)3.1 miles8
Bug Tussle4.1 miles8
Oak Ridge4.1 miles8
Bagby4.4 miles8
Lyday Crossing4.5 miles8
Silver City5.2 miles8
Bartley Woods6.2 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 LadoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982416The 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 1382112. 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.