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.
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
Haden Houselisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresLadonia 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 612 | |
| 2020 | 597 | -15 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Ladonia quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Sulphur Springs quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
126 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 65 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 8 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONTROL BURN HWY 34 |
| 5 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 30 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE/TIRES ON FIRE |
| 25 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4907 FIRE |
| 22 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE/POS.STRUCTURES |
| 22 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 18 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HUFFSTICHLER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ladonia | $15,000 | Some apartments and an outbuilding were unroofed. |
| February 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ladonia | $10,000 | Heavy damage was reported in the town square. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ladonia | $5,000 | A barn was damaged by high thunderstorm wind. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ladonia | $2,000 | Trees down around Ladonia. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Ladonia | $2,000 | Emergency management reported that 2 houses were flooded souotheast of the city of Ladonia, TX. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ladonia | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down by high thunderstorm wind. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Ladonia | - | Ping pong ball size hail was reported in Ladonia. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Ladonia | - | Reported via mPing. |
| April 2022 | Flood | Ladonia | - | Low water crossings in Ladonia were flooded due to heavy rain. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Ladonia | - | A trained spotter reported nickel to quarter size hail in the city of Ladonia, TX. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Ladonia | - | Amateur radio reported half-dollar sized hail in the city of Ladonia. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Ladonia | - | Amateur Radio reported half dollar size hail near Ladonia. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Ladonia | - | Amateur Radio reported golf ball size hail near Ladonia. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Ladonia | - | A HAM radio operator reported several streets in Ladonia had water covering the surfaces. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Ladonia | - | 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 2022 | Hail | Ladonia | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Ladonia | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Ladonia | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Ladonia | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ladonia | - | no account filed |
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ladonia | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Grove | 2.1 miles | 8 | |
| Flat Prairie (historical) | 3.1 miles | 8 | |
| Bug Tussle | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| Oak Ridge | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| Bagby | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Lyday Crossing | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Silver City | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Bartley Woods | 6.2 miles | 6 |
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 Ladonia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982416 | 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 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.




