Lingleville, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Stephenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76401. The Survey maps it on the Lingleville quadrangle. 166 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,558 feet above sea level.
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 Stephenville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1920 USGS Stephenville quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Lingleville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Stephenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
178 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Lingleville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,475 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 98 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2011 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 8 FLATS |
| 27 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 416 GRASS FIRE |
| 22 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lingleville in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lingleville | $75,000 | Social media photos indicated a mobile home was destroyed between Lingleville and Stephenville. No injuries were reported. |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lingleville | $75,000 | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lingleville | $50,000 | A possible microburst caused damage along a 3 mile stretch on FM 219 between Lingleville and Huckabay. The exact location of the damage is unknown. Trees were snapped, homes were damaged, and a barn lost its metal roof. More significantly, a large silo was blown from its base across a field. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lingleville | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds unroofed a mobile home. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Lingleville | $40,000 | Fire Department reported golf ball size hail in Lingleville Fire Station. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lingleville | $10,000 | A social media photo showed a small barn destroyed and large tree limbs snapped on County Road 397 just west of Huckabay in rural Erath County. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lingleville | $2,000 | Multiple metal structures and trees were damage along CR 401 west of Stephenville. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lingleville | $2,000 | Roof damage to a barn. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Lingleville | - | Hail report received via mPing. |
| November 2008 | Flash Flood | Lingleville | - | One motorist in Lingleville became stuck in flood waters and had to be rescued. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Lingleville | - | Occurred between Lingleville and Dublin. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Lingleville | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Lingleville | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Lingleville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lingleville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lingleville | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Lingleville | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lingleville | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Hail | Lingleville | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Flash Flood | Lingleville | - | no account filed |
| October 1993 | Hail | Lingleville | - | 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 Lingleville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6553891 | 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 1339977. 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.





