Lockettville, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Ropesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79358. The Survey maps it on the Lockettville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Lockettville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Lockettville between 2006 and 2012, burning about 260 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 11 August 2011 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | N 385 AND 211 |
| 16 May 2011 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3.5 SOUTH OF NEEDMORE |
| 1 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 385 AND CR 230 |
| 27 February 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 385 AND CR 210 |
| 21 February 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 270/168 |
| 16 February 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3919 S. ALAMO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lockettville in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 4 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2001 | Hail | Lockettville | $25,000 | Golfball size hail was reported by law enforcement officials on Highway 385. |
| May 1996 | Hail | Lockettville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Lockettville | - | Law enforcement reported water and mud overflowing sections of roads in southeast Hockley County. The flash flooding forced the closure of FM Road 1585, FM Road 168 and County Road 41 for a few hours. One section of FM Road 1585 had water up to the headlights of a car. Travel was still impeded the following day until mud could be plowed free from the road. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Lockettville | - | Hail up to golfball size destroyed crops. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Lockettville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clauene | 5.7 miles | 7 | |
| Arnett | 7.1 miles | 7 | |
| Ropesville | 8.8 miles | 9 | |
| Sundown | 10.1 miles | 7 | |
| Opdyke West | 13.9 miles | 8 | |
| Levelland | 13.9 miles | 7 | |
| Opdyke | 14.1 miles | 8 | |
| Smyer | 15.6 miles | 9 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122565217 | 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 1361596. 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.




