Lipan, Texas
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Granbury West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76462. It stands on Weaver Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lipan quadrangle. 505 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLipan grew from 430 to 505 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 | 430 | |
| 2020 | 505 | +75 (+17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 20 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.
- 1891 USGS Palo Pinto quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1918 USGS Palo Pinto quadrangle1:125000
- 1931 USGS Santo quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Lipan quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Lipan quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Mineral Wells quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
142 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Lipan between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,774 acres in total. 6 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 | 80 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAY BALER FIRE |
| 5 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BOSWELL COURT |
| 21 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE 17-231 |
| 19 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BOWDEN |
| 15 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DAVIS RD. GRASS FIRE |
| 13 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE FM 1189 |
| 11 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 281 & 4 FIRE 15-165 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lipan in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 14 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Lipan | $60,000 | Houses and roads were flooded in town. Four cars were reportedly under water. Three to four feet of water was reported over Highway 4 between Lipan and Granbury, and Kickapoo Creek was washing pavement off roads in Lipan. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lipan | $30,000 | Several large trees were downed west of Lipan and roof damage was reported in town. |
| October 2009 | Flash Flood | Lipan | $25,000 | Creeks in Decordova were 3-5 feet out of their banks and flooding surrounding areas. At least 4 county roads were closed due to high water and several more low water crossing locations were barricaded. Just after midnight, a man had to be rescued from his truck after getting stuck at a low water crossing on Stroud Creek Avenue near Thorp Spring. The water was 2 feet deep in the low water crossing. The truck was swept into the raging Stroud Creek just moments after the man was rescued. The man was injured during the rescue. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Lipan | $20,000 | FM 1189 N at Falls Road was washed out. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lipan | $15,000 | A roof was partially blown off of a house. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Lipan | $15,000 | no account filed |
| October 2009 | Flash Flood | Lipan | $8,000 | A Lipan school bus got stuck in 3 feet of water at a low water crossing. The exact location of the incident is unknown. No one was injured. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Lipan | $7,000 | Golf ball sized hail was reported 2 miles east of Lipan. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Lipan | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lipan | $4,000 | Sixty mph winds were estimated in Lipan. Power poles were knocked down. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lipan | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 60 mph approximately 3 miles south of Lipan. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Lipan | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lipan | $1,000 | Several trees and small branches down in Lipan. |
| January 2012 | Flood | Lipan | $1,000 | Nearly 19 hours of continuous rain resulted in the flooding of low-lying areas across Hood County. During the evening hours, many low-lying areas in Tolar and Lipan had to be barricaded. The Sheriff's Office reported that the water was nearly 2 feet deep in a few low-lying areas. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lipan | $1,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. Some roof damage was also reported. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Lipan | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Lipan | - | Emergency management reported quarter-size hail east of Lipan, TX. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Lipan | - | Hood County Sheriff's Department reported quarter sized hail just south of Lipan, TX. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Lipan | - | Dime sized hail was reported in Lipan. |
| November 2008 | Hail | Lipan | - | Quarter-size hail fell for approximately 5 minutes. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Lipan | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Lipan | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Lipan | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lipan | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lipan | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Lipan | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Lipan | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allison | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| Tolar | 11.1 miles | 18 | |
| Oak Trail Shores | 11.4 miles | 19 | |
| Thorp Spring | 12.0 miles | 19 | |
| Fairview | 12.9 miles | 20 | |
| Granbury | 14.3 miles | 19 | |
| Brushy | 14.7 miles | 19 | |
| Center Mill | 15.1 miles | 20 |
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 Lipan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q978874 | 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 1339997. 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.







