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Lavon, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Nevada census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75166. The Survey maps it on the Lavon quadrangle. 4,469 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 525 feet above sea level.

Lavon within Collin County

Population over time

2 figures

Lavon grew from 2,219 to 4,469 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
20102,219
20204,469+2,250 (+101%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

319 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 319 fires within 5 miles of Lavon between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,131 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning164
Missing data/not specified/undetermined95
Equipment and vehicle use29
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Natural2

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 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15571 CR 543 - 11076947
8 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9641 COUNTY ROAD 1088 - 12076362
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 78 & FM 6 - 11075970
6 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service18654 CR 913 - 11075679
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceW FM 6 / N STATE HIGHWAY 78 - 14099438
3 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9597 COUNTY ROAD 1088
29 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 966 AND COUNTY ROAD 487
27 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service20493 FM 2755

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin County

Storms near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lavon in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2000Thunderstorm WindLavon1 hurt, $40,000A garage was destroyed and a mobile home was destroyed. Another mobile home was damaged. One person was injured in the destroyed mobile home. Damaged was reported five miles northeast of Lake Lavon.
April 2016HailLavon$250,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLavon$100,000A NWS survey team found the damage in Lavon was consistent with straight line winds up to 75 mph. A local weather station in Lavon also measured 75 mph winds at the time. Most of the damage observed was to large tree limbs, shingles on roofs, and fences. A bank drive through also collapsed. Aluminum panel roofing was removed from one business and one manufactured home.
June 2015LightningLavon$50,000A house fire was reported on Chaparral Trot in Collin County around 8 am local time. Local fire officials stated lightning hit the peak of the roof sparking a fire in the attic of a two-story home. Fire damage was incurred in the attic and smoke and water damage plagued the rest of the home.
April 2021HailLavon$30,000A public report indicated golf ball sized hail near the northern part of Lake Lavon.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLavon$7,000no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindLavon$2,000Strong winds blew down trees and power lines.
March 1997Thunderstorm WindLavon$2,000no account filed
June 2015Flash FloodLavon$1,000Business 78 near Highway 78 in Lavon was closed due to flooding. Several county roads were also flooded.
March 2022HailLavon-A public report indicated dime sized hail just south of Lavon, TX.
May 2021HailLavon-A public report indicated quarter sized hail just north of Lavon, TX.
May 2021HailLavon-Emergency management reported quarter to half-dollar sized hail in the city of Lavon, TX.
May 2021HailLavon-A public report indicated quarter sized hail in the city of Lavon, TX.
May 2021HailLavon-A social media report indicated ping pong ball sized hail in Lavon, TX.
April 2021HailLavon-Emergency management reported quarter sized hail near the city of Lavon, TX.
August 2017FloodLavon-Collin County Sheriff's Department reported a few intersections being flooded along Highway 78 in the city of Lavon, TX.
November 2009Heavy RainLavon-A car hydroplanned on SH 78 just south of SH 205 causing the head-on collision of two cars. The collision resulted in the death of three adults and injured three others; including a toddler. The injuries to all three were nonlife-threatening and mostly consisted of broken bones.
May 2007Flash FloodLavon-FM 2755 was underwater and closed.
May 1999Flash FloodLavon-Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused the intersection of Farm Market 2755 and State Highway 78 to be closed due to high water.
February 2000Thunderstorm WindLavon-no account filed
February 2000HailLavon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Collin 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
Deep Water Point Estates2.2 miles11
Millwood2.3 miles16
Little Ridge2.7 miles11
Nevada3.4 miles9
Lavon Lake Lodges3.7 miles12
Copeville3.7 miles11
Pebble Beach Sunset Acres4.0 miles11
Beverly Hill4.1 miles11

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 LavonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q620334The 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 1339724. 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.