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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.

Lockettville within Hockley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

8 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined6
Smoking1
Natural1

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
12 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 August 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN 385 AND 211
16 May 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3.5 SOUTH OF NEEDMORE
1 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 385 AND CR 230
27 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 385 AND CR 210
21 February 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service270/168
16 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3919 S. ALAMO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hockley County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2001HailLockettville$25,000Golfball size hail was reported by law enforcement officials on Highway 385.
May 1996HailLockettville$5,000no account filed
August 2017Flash FloodLockettville-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 2002HailLockettville-Hail up to golfball size destroyed crops.
May 2004HailLockettville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hockley 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
Clauene5.7 miles7
Arnett7.1 miles7
Ropesville8.8 miles9
Sundown10.1 miles7
Opdyke West13.9 miles8
Levelland13.9 miles7
Opdyke14.1 miles8
Smyer15.6 miles9

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 Q122565217The 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.