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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.

Lingleville within Erath County

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

178 since 2005

Regional 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 burning98
Equipment and vehicle use33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking5
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism1
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
6 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 8 FLATS
27 September 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 416 GRASS FIRE
22 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2006Debris and open burning6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erath County

Storms near this place

21 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Thunderstorm WindLingleville$75,000Social media photos indicated a mobile home was destroyed between Lingleville and Stephenville. No injuries were reported.
September 1996Thunderstorm WindLingleville$75,000no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLingleville$50,000A 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 1994Thunderstorm WindLingleville$50,000Thunderstorm winds unroofed a mobile home.
April 2017HailLingleville$40,000Fire Department reported golf ball size hail in Lingleville Fire Station.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLingleville$10,000A 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 2023Thunderstorm WindLingleville$2,000Multiple metal structures and trees were damage along CR 401 west of Stephenville.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindLingleville$2,000Roof damage to a barn.
April 2020HailLingleville-Hail report received via mPing.
November 2008Flash FloodLingleville-One motorist in Lingleville became stuck in flood waters and had to be rescued.
April 2004HailLingleville-Occurred between Lingleville and Dublin.
May 2011HailLingleville-no account filed
June 2004HailLingleville-no account filed
June 2004HailLingleville-no account filed
May 2002HailLingleville-no account filed
May 2002HailLingleville-no account filed
April 2000HailLingleville-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindLingleville-no account filed
October 1996HailLingleville-no account filed
September 1996Flash FloodLingleville-no account filed
October 1993HailLingleville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Erath 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
Bunyan5.3 miles12
Victor7.1 miles13
Highland7.2 miles13
Huckabay8.1 miles13
Hannibal9.2 miles13
Stephenville9.4 miles15
Harbin10.4 miles12
Dublin11.2 miles12

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 LinglevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6553891The 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.