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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.

Leona within Leon County

Population over time

2 figures

Leona 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.

YearPeople Change
2010175
2020151-24 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

15 since 1995

Regional 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 1996Natural34 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 June 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH-45 NB 153MM
3 May 2008Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHASE
27 March 2013Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4005
20 March 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 March 1996Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leon County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1998Tornado (F1)Leona1 hurt, $50,000A 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 1998Tornado (F0)Leona$45,000A tornado damaged a house and blew down trees in the Hilltop Lakes community.
April 2022HailLeona$25,000A photograph posted on social media indicated golf ball sized hail in Leona, TX.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindLeona$5,000A 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 2017HailLeona$2,000One inch hail was reported in Leona.
April 2023Flash FloodLeona-Emergency management reported flash flooding in Leona.
April 2022HailLeona-A public report indicated dime sized hail about 4 miles west southwest of Leona, TX.
April 2022HailLeona-Broadcast media reported quarter sized hail about a mile east of Leona, TX.
April 2010HailLeona-Half Dollar size hail was reported 4 miles west of Leona.
April 2004HailLeona-Occurred at the intersection of FM 977 and FM 39.
May 2004Flash FloodLeona-Water was reported over roads east and north of Normangee.
November 2002Heavy RainLeona-The east bound feeder road on Interstate 45 was flooded at the 154 mile marker.
May 2013HailLeona-no account filed
May 2011HailLeona-no account filed
December 2002HailLeona-no account filed
May 1998HailLeona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Leon 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
Pleasant Ridge3.9 miles9
Spring Seat5.1 miles7
Cross Roads5.5 miles9
Spillers Store5.5 miles11
Middleton5.7 miles11
Redland7.0 miles7
Centerville7.1 miles9
Flynn8.2 miles7

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 LeonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q971061The 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.