Locust, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northwest Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75076. It stands on Scott Branch. The Survey maps it on the Gordonville quadrangle.

Locust within Grayson 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.

1901 USGS Denison quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Gordonville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Gordonville SE quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Gordonville quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

102 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Locust between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,452 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 were 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	37
Debris and open burning	29
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Smoking	5
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	TONIE HUFF
6 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge	F PAD
6 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HAGERMAN
6 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	THOUSAND TRAILS
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HIGHPORT FIREWORKS FIRE
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SQUIRRLE LANE
21 September 2000	Smoking	50 acres	Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge	NAYLERROAD
12 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.8 acres	Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge	BRUSHY CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

Storms near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Locust in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
May 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Locust	$80,000	A National Weather Service damage survey team found evidence of a tornado on and near Lake Texoma in Grayson County. The tornado itself was brief, but did produce damage to two buildings on land, and completely destroyed a marina roof on the south shore of the lake.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Locust	$3,000	An amateur radio operator measured a 62 mph wind gust at Camp James Ray boy scout camp in northwestern Grayson County. Tree damage was reported near the camp with 21 trees knocked down. The trees averaged 4-6 inches in diameter, but one post oak was 7 in diameter. Hail up to the size of dimes was also reported.
October 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Locust	$1,000	A public report indicated that a dock was flipped by thunderstorm winds on Lake Texoma just east of Gordonville, TX.
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Locust	$1,000	The weather station at Camp James Ray measured a 57 mph wind gust. Some large tree branches were broken on the property, and a few tree trucks were snapped which suggested some slightly higher winds may have occurred on the property.
May 2024	Hail	Locust	-	Report from mPING: Dime (0.75 in.).
March 2023	Hail	Locust	-	Dime size hail was reported in the Mill Creek area of Lake Texoma.
April 2018	Hail	Locust	-	A public report indicated penny-sized hail approximately 7 miles north-northeast of the city of Sadler, TX.
June 2014	Hail	Locust	-	Hail up to the size of dimes was reported at Camp James Ray in far northwestern Grayson County.
March 2006	Tornado (F0)	Locust	-	Tornado reported by Gordonville Fire Department about 5 miles east of the intersection of FM 901 and Highway 377.

Every storm recorded in Grayson 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
Willow Spring	2.0 miles	12
Cambridge	2.5 miles	12
Cedar Mills	3.3 miles	12
Gordonville	4.3 miles	12
Sherwood Shores	4.8 miles	12
Fink	5.1 miles	12
Basin Springs	5.9 miles	12
Hanger	6.0 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380097. 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.