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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.

Lawn within Taylor County

Population over time

3 figures

Lawn 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.

YearPeople Change
2000353
2010314-39 (-11%)
2020311-3 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

55 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE LAFOON
22 September 2008Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE - FM 604
8 August 2015Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOWRY FIRE
26 August 2006Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use43 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997HailLawn$250,000Nickel to golfball sized hail fell along a path from Lawn to the city of Abilene.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindLawn$50,000A 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 2002Thunderstorm WindLawn$1,000Several power lines were downed due to high winds at Lawn.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindLawn-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 2024HailLawn-A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail.
May 2024HailLawn-A trained spotter reported hen egg to tennis ball size hail near Lawn.
May 2022HailLawn-The public reported quarter to half-dollar size hail.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindLawn-A trained spotter estimated 60 mph winds associated with a microburst thunderstorm near Lawn.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLawn-A member of the public estimated a wind gust near 70 mph just east of Lawn.
May 2012HailLawn-Dime to quarter size hail was reported near Lawn.
March 2008HailLawn-Golfball size hail was reported on Highway 84.
March 2002Tornado (F0)Lawn-Amateur radio personnel reported 2 simultaneous brief tornado touchdowns just south of Lawn in southern Taylor County.
March 2002Tornado (F0)Lawn-Amateur radio personnel reported 2 brief tornado touchdowns simultaneously just south of lawn in southern Taylor County.
September 2022Funnel CloudLawn-no account filed
March 2016HailLawn-no account filed
May 2015HailLawn-no account filed
May 2012HailLawn-no account filed
April 2011HailLawn-no account filed
May 2007HailLawn-no account filed
May 2005HailLawn-no account filed
December 2004Thunderstorm WindLawn-no account filed
July 2002HailLawn-no account filed
October 2002HailLawn-no account filed
May 2001HailLawn-no account filed
May 1999HailLawn-no account filed
October 1998HailLawn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Ovalo4.0 miles12
Rogers4.4 miles13
Tuscola5.7 miles12
Guion6.1 miles12
Bradshaw8.2 miles12
Buffalo Gap10.8 miles15
Potosi14.3 miles14
View16.0 miles15

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 LawnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982403The 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.