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Lakeview, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lakeview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79239. The Survey maps it on the Memphis NW quadrangle. 60 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,129 feet above sea level.

Lakeview within Hall County

Population over time

3 figures

Lakeview fell from 152 to 60 between 2000 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
2000152
2010107-45 (-30%)
202060-47 (-44%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

28 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Lakeview between 2006 and 2017, burning about 144 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined10
Natural8
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
6 September 2007Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAKEVIEW
5 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRUDIE CALL IN
4 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMALOY FIRE
10 July 2006Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 June 2008Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 June 2008Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2008Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hall County

Storms near this place

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeview in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 17 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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 2016Tornado (EF2)Lakeview$150,000A large tornado developed near Plaska late this afternoon and moved slowly southeastward for the next 15 minutes before dissipating. Several storm chasers documented this tornado as it grew into a wedge shape while wrapping in rain curtains. This tornado and damaging RFD winds toppled several utility poles, heavily damaged and stripped some trees, and destroyed a barn. The damage was found to be consistent with EF-2 winds. There may have been additional, smaller tornadoes concurrently or following this large tornado, however insufficient video evidence and few damage indicators precluded an explicit entry of these tornadoes.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindLakeview$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds in excess of 60 mph blew down power lines and power poles.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindLakeview$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindLakeview$1,000Numerous large tree limbs were blown down north of Lakeview as a thunderstorm produced severe wind gusts.
April 2019HailLakeview$500A 12-mile long swath of severe hail ranging from quarter to golf ball size affected a strip of far north-central Hall County. The hail cracked a storm chaser's windshield on Highway 287 near Memphis, but additional damage to vehicles in the area was not known.
March 2026HailLakeview-Numerous reports from storm chasers, law enforcement, and the public depicted a swath of severe hail. This swath of hail was observed from southwest of Lakeview into the town of Memphis along Texas Highway 256. Hail ranged in size from pennies to 2.25 inches in diameter. No damage was reported.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindLakeview-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near Lesley measured severe wind gusts from 1704 CST through 1705 CST. A peak gust of 63 mph was measured at 1704 CST.
April 2016HailLakeview-A photo from the public in Lakeview indicated hail of about 1.5 inches in diameter. Damage was not known.
May 2016HailLakeview-Several storm chasers reported hail up to the size of tennis balls in and to the southeast of Lakeview. No damage was reported.
May 2014HailLakeview-A citizen reported quarter size hail in Lakeview.
May 2013HailLakeview-A storm chaser observed baseball size hail southeast of Lakeview.
June 2013Heavy RainLakeview-The public measured 2.7 inches of rain in 45 minutes about two miles northeast of Lakeview.
May 2008HailLakeview-The public reported penny size hail in Lakeview.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLakeview-A rancher located in rural portions of central Hall County reported severe thunderstorm wind gusts that were intermittently accompanied by large hail around 18:00 CST on the 14th. The winds, estimated to be near 70 mph, broke numerous large tree limbs.
June 2008HailLakeview-A rancher in rural areas of central Hall County reported large hail accompanied by damaging thunderstorm winds around 18:00 CST on the 14th. The hail, up to the size of ping pong balls, and winds combined to shred trees, with many large tree limbs downed.
May 2006HailLakeview-Ping pong ball size hail was reported by the public north of Lakeview.
May 2006HailLakeview-The public reported that penny size hail covered the ground at a rural residence just south of Farm to Market Road 256 in northern Hall County.
May 2006HailLakeview-A rural resident of northern Hall County reported penny size hail along Farm to Market Road 256 west of Lakeview.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindLakeview-Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted trees.
April 2005HailLakeview-no account filed
May 2002HailLakeview-no account filed
June 2000HailLakeview-no account filed
May 1997HailLakeview-no account filed
June 1997HailLakeview-no account filed
September 1995HailLakeview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hall 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
Eli4.0 miles9
Plaska5.5 miles9
Lesley6.2 miles9
Memphis9.4 miles9
South Brice10.4 miles9
Brice10.7 miles9
Weatherly10.9 miles9
Parnell11.6 miles9

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 LakeviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q974159The 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 1360879. 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.