Leona, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Centerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75850. It stands on Adkisson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Leona quadrangle. 151 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 341 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLeona fell from 175 to 151 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 | 175 | |
| 2020 | 151 | -24 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Leona quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Leona between 1995 and 2016, burning about 268 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 1996 | Natural | 34 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 June 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | IH-45 NB 153MM |
| 3 May 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CHASE |
| 27 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4005 |
| 20 March 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 10 March 1996 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leona in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 10 hail, 2 tornado, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Leona | 1 hurt, $50,000 | A tornado severely damaged the roof of a restaurant. The manager of the restaurant, who was inside the building at the time, received minor injuries. |
| February 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Leona | $45,000 | A tornado damaged a house and blew down trees in the Hilltop Lakes community. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Leona | $25,000 | A photograph posted on social media indicated golf ball sized hail in Leona, TX. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leona | $5,000 | A storm chaser reported 70 mph winds and power outages in Leona on FM 977. Reports on Facebook also indicated several trees were down along Highway 75 in Leona. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Leona | $2,000 | One inch hail was reported in Leona. |
| April 2023 | Flash Flood | Leona | - | Emergency management reported flash flooding in Leona. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Leona | - | A public report indicated dime sized hail about 4 miles west southwest of Leona, TX. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Leona | - | Broadcast media reported quarter sized hail about a mile east of Leona, TX. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Leona | - | Half Dollar size hail was reported 4 miles west of Leona. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Leona | - | Occurred at the intersection of FM 977 and FM 39. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Leona | - | Water was reported over roads east and north of Normangee. |
| November 2002 | Heavy Rain | Leona | - | The east bound feeder road on Interstate 45 was flooded at the 154 mile marker. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Leona | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Leona | - | no account filed |
| December 2002 | Hail | Leona | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Leona | - | 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 Ridge | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| Spring Seat | 5.1 miles | 7 | |
| Cross Roads | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Spillers Store | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Middleton | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Redland | 7.0 miles | 7 | |
| Centerville | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| Flynn | 8.2 miles | 7 |
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 Leona | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q971061 | 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 1361095. 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.




