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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.

Lipan within Hood County

Population over time

2 figures

Lipan 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.

YearPeople Change
2010430
2020505+75 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

142 since 2005

Regional 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 burning80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use22
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAY BALER FIRE
5 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOSWELL COURT
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE 17-231
19 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOWDEN
15 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAVIS RD. GRASS FIRE
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE FM 1189
11 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service281 & 4 FIRE 15-165

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hood County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2007Flash FloodLipan$60,000Houses 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 2008Thunderstorm WindLipan$30,000Several large trees were downed west of Lipan and roof damage was reported in town.
October 2009Flash FloodLipan$25,000Creeks 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 2007Flash FloodLipan$20,000FM 1189 N at Falls Road was washed out.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindLipan$15,000A roof was partially blown off of a house.
April 2011HailLipan$15,000no account filed
October 2009Flash FloodLipan$8,000A 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 2012HailLipan$7,000Golf ball sized hail was reported 2 miles east of Lipan.
April 2008HailLipan$5,000no account filed
May 2012Thunderstorm WindLipan$4,000Sixty mph winds were estimated in Lipan. Power poles were knocked down.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindLipan$3,000Thunderstorm winds were estimated at 60 mph approximately 3 miles south of Lipan.
May 2011HailLipan$3,000no account filed
May 2016Thunderstorm WindLipan$1,000Several trees and small branches down in Lipan.
January 2012FloodLipan$1,000Nearly 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 2001Thunderstorm WindLipan$1,000Trees and power lines were blown down. Some roof damage was also reported.
May 2011HailLipan$1,000no account filed
May 2024HailLipan-Emergency management reported quarter-size hail east of Lipan, TX.
March 2016HailLipan-Hood County Sheriff's Department reported quarter sized hail just south of Lipan, TX.
May 2012HailLipan-Dime sized hail was reported in Lipan.
November 2008HailLipan-Quarter-size hail fell for approximately 5 minutes.
April 2011HailLipan-no account filed
May 2003HailLipan-no account filed
March 2000HailLipan-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindLipan-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindLipan-no account filed
April 1994HailLipan-no account filed
April 1994HailLipan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hood 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
Allison4.7 miles18
Tolar11.1 miles18
Oak Trail Shores11.4 miles19
Thorp Spring12.0 miles19
Fairview12.9 miles20
Granbury14.3 miles19
Brushy14.7 miles19
Center Mill15.1 miles20

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 LipanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978874The 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.