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Loebau, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Lincoln-Dime Box census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78948. It stands on Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lincoln quadrangle.

Loebau within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Loebau between 1992 and 2020, burning about 627 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use17
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 112
4 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURN BAN VIOLATION
29 September 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRICK FOSTER
27 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSALAZAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loebau in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2016Flash FloodLoebau1 killedA vehicle was swept off the road due to swift water. The driver was found deceased the next day due to apparent drowning.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindLoebau$10,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph that damaged the underpinning of a mobile home, a porch, a barn, a well house, a fence, and multiple trees.
March 2025HailLoebau-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Loebau.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindLoebau-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 58 mph that damaged trees off Private Rd. 1271 near Giddings.
April 2015Flash FloodLoebau-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing CR143 near Loebau.
April 2008HailLoebau-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Lincoln3.1 miles9
Sweet Home4.9 miles10
Doak Springs6.0 miles9
Dime Box6.5 miles10
Old Dime Box6.6 miles9
Leo6.9 miles9
Giddings7.4 miles8
Manheim7.7 miles16

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 Q122551253The 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 1378593. 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.