Lawn, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Jim Ned census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79530. It stands on Gray Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lawn quadrangle. 311 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,916 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresLawn fell from 353 to 311 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 353 | |
| 2010 | 314 | -39 (-11%) |
| 2020 | 311 | -3 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1890 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Lawn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
55 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Lawn between 2005 and 2020, burning about 588 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/undetermined | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIRE LAFOON |
| 22 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIRE - FM 604 |
| 8 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LOWRY FIRE |
| 26 August 2006 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 43 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawn in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Hail | Lawn | $250,000 | Nickel to golfball sized hail fell along a path from Lawn to the city of Abilene. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawn | $50,000 | A barn was blown down by strong winds. Hamilton County 5 E Hamilton,29,2020CST,,,0,0,3,0,Thunderstorm Winds A large tree limb was down on Highway 2905. Thunderstorm winds unroofed a house. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawn | $1,000 | Several power lines were downed due to high winds at Lawn. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawn | - | A NWS Storm Survey team reported damage to the door and roof of a large metal barn. In addition, large tree branches were broken off several trees. Also, an a/c compressor on side of house was moved off its foundation and flipped on its side. The wind speed was estimated at 85 mph. Time of damage estimated by radar. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Lawn | - | A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Lawn | - | A trained spotter reported hen egg to tennis ball size hail near Lawn. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Lawn | - | The public reported quarter to half-dollar size hail. |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawn | - | A trained spotter estimated 60 mph winds associated with a microburst thunderstorm near Lawn. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawn | - | A member of the public estimated a wind gust near 70 mph just east of Lawn. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Lawn | - | Dime to quarter size hail was reported near Lawn. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Lawn | - | Golfball size hail was reported on Highway 84. |
| March 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Lawn | - | Amateur radio personnel reported 2 simultaneous brief tornado touchdowns just south of Lawn in southern Taylor County. |
| March 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Lawn | - | Amateur radio personnel reported 2 brief tornado touchdowns simultaneously just south of lawn in southern Taylor County. |
| September 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Lawn | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | Lawn | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Lawn | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Lawn | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Lawn | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Lawn | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Lawn | - | no account filed |
| December 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawn | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Lawn | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Hail | Lawn | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Lawn | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Lawn | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Lawn | - | 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.
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 Lawn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982403 | 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 1339735. 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.





