Lobo, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Van Horn Rural census division. The Survey maps it on the Lobo quadrangle. 15 people lived here at the 2009 count. It stands 4,009 feet above sea level.

Lobo within Culberson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1892 USGS Chispa quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Chispa quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Chispa quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Marfa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Marfa quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Lobo quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Mount Livermore quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lobo in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 hail. 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
October 1997	Hail	Lobo	-	One inch hail was reported along U.S. Highway 90 in the Lobo community. The storm was a severe single cell that formed when upslope southeasterly winds blew into the Van Horn Mountains west of Lobo. Dew point temperatures were near 50 degrees.

Every storm recorded in Culberson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Van Horn	16.1 miles	13
Corner Windmill	18.4 miles	13
Boracho	26.5 miles	8
Kent	33.4 miles	8
Levinson	39.0 miles	9
Ort	39.4 miles	8
Pezuna del Caballo	52.1 miles	7
Grisham Pumping Station	52.9 miles	8

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 Lobo	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6663734	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 1361584. 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.

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.