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Lexington, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lexington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78947. The Survey maps it on the Lexington quadrangle. 1,217 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

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Lexington within Lee County

Population over time

2 figures

Lexington grew from 1,177 to 1,217 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
20101,177
20201,217+40 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

66 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Lexington between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,240 acres in total. 2 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 696 EAST GRASS FIRE
26 September 2015Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRAIL RIDE FIRE
25 September 2015Natural4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTRUCTURE/GRASS FIRE
25 September 2005Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2005Debris and open burning9.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCENTRAL TX - 22
14 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY/GRASS FIRE MUTUAL AID LEXINGTON VFD
5 August 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4111 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

44 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lexington in 44 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 21 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 4 tornado. 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
December 2002HailLexington$150,000Damage was reported to roofs and windows of buildings as well as to vehicles in the Lexington area by the softball-sized hail.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindLexington$100,000High winds blew an 18-wheel trailer off a bridge and into a creek along US77 2 miles north of Lexington. Other severe thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines in the city of Lexington. Some residents were left without power for few hours.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindLexington$100,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees in the Lexington area. The winds also severely damaged 2 barns just outside Lexington.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLexington$50,000A cold front moved southward into South Central Texas on the morning of July 23. A line of showers and thunderstorms developed along the front and moved quickly southward. Strong downburst winds damaged roofs, and knocked over several dozen trees shortly before noon.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLexington$20,000A severe thunderstorm moved southward across northern Lee County and produced severe winds as it approached Lexington. The damaging winds knocked down several trees in the area.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLexington$15,000Severe winds blew down trees just northwest of Lexington.
January 1998HailLexington$10,000no account filed
October 2012Tornado (EF0)Lexington$5,000A small EF0 tornado touched down just southeast of Lexington. A combination of eye witnesses, storm chasers, and a NWS survey concluded that it produced little damage in mainly rural areas southeast of Lexington. A few trees were damaged near the area but little in the way of a path could be found. There was minor roof damage to a house but inconclusive whether it was tornado damage or microburst damage. Most tree damage was found near the intersection of county roads 405 and 408. A few other brief touchdowns may have occurred along the storm path in Lee County but no major damage was found.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLexington$5,000Newspaper in Lexington reported trees down in the city of Lexington.
September 1994Tornado (F0)Lexington$1,000Large trees were twisted and broken in two by a small tornado.
May 2024HailLexington-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Lexington.
December 2024HailLexington-A thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail in Lexington.
December 2024HailLexington-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Lexington.
May 2020HailLexington-A thunderstorm produced ping pong ball to golf ball size hail that coverd the ground in Lexington.
May 2020HailLexington-A thunderstorm produced two inch hail in Lexington.
May 2020HailLexington-A thunderstorm produced nickel size hail in Lexington.
May 2020HailLexington-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Lexington.
May 2020HailLexington-A thunderstorm produced nickel to golf ball size hail east of Lexington. Hail fell for 15 minutes.
May 2019Flash FloodLexington-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing FM 1624 near Middle Yegua Creek west-southwest of Lexington.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindLexington-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindLexington-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts measured at 78 mph at knocked down a tree across Hwy 77 north of Lexington.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindLexington-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
May 2015Flash FloodLexington-Numerous reports of flooding on roadways in the town of Lexington.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindLexington-Numerous reports of trees down and hail in the town of Lexington. Hail size was not determined in the report.
May 2015Flash FloodLexington-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain totaling 3.5 inches. This led to localized flooding in Lexington.
October 2015Flash FloodLexington-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing FM 696 west of Lexington.
September 2009Flash FloodLexington-Heavy rain caused flooding on County Road 320 near Lexington.
May 2007Flash FloodLexington-Scattered showers and thunderstorms produced general 2 to 4 inch rain amounts east of Lexington, which closed FM696 closed due to high water.
August 2005Flash FloodLexington-Thunderstorms that formed in the morning between Killeen in Bell County, Rockdale in Cameron County and Caldwell in Burleson County moved southward into Lee County through the mid morning. They produced widespread 1 to 2 inch rainfall along the Williamson County line, increasing to 3 to 4 inches near Lexington. Flash flooding developed along Middle Yegua Creek, closing low water crossings on FM112 and FM696 north and west of Lexington.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindLexington-Gust to 57 knots reported by weather instruments at a school.
January 1998Tornado (F0)Lexington-A second short-lived tornado was sighted just northeast of Lexington by several members of the public.
January 1998Tornado (F0)Lexington-A final, very short-lived tornado was spotted by a Sheriff's Deputy just north of Lexington.
May 2016HailLexington-no account filed
April 2013HailLexington-no account filed
March 2013HailLexington-no account filed
March 2013HailLexington-no account filed
March 2013HailLexington-no account filed
March 2013HailLexington-no account filed
March 2009HailLexington-no account filed
April 2008HailLexington-no account filed
December 2002HailLexington-no account filed
April 2001HailLexington-no account filed
March 1999HailLexington-no account filed
January 1998Funnel CloudLexington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Leo3.9 miles9
Pleasant Grove (historical)4.7 miles9
Doak Springs4.7 miles9
Tanglewood5.6 miles9
Fedor7.4 miles15
Blue7.4 miles15
Old Dime Box8.4 miles9
Hicks8.5 miles8

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 LexingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982607The 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 1361137. 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.