Lohn, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Melvin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76852. The Survey maps it on the Lohn quadrangle. It stands 1,565 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1894 USGS Brady quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1928 USGS Waldrip quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1973 USGS Lohn quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Brady quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
22 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Lohn between 2006 and 2009, burning about 1,189 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 August 2006 | Smoking | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 July 2006 | Natural | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 316 FIRE |
| 5 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
34 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lohn in 34 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 23 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lohn | $80,000 | The 70 MPH winds were also accompanied by golfball size hail. This combination did significant damage to a school and several homes in the area. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lohn | $10,000 | Emergency manager reported a car blown off the road and many trees downed around the Lohn area. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lohn | $5,000 | High winds accompanied the baseball size hail. A barn roof was blown off by the high winds. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lohn | - | Law enforcement reported the Lohn ISD school roof got blown off by wind and is in the middle of the street just east of FM2635. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Lohn | - | Public reported quarter size hail. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Lohn | - | Ping pong size hail and strong winds broke one window at the school in Lohn. The wind driven hail destroyed hundred acres of wheat between FM 504 and FM 765. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Lohn | - | The public reported half dollar to ping pong ball size hail near Lohn in northern Mcculloch County. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Lohn | - | An amateur radio spotter reported quarter size hail. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lohn | - | A coop observer reported a power pole snapped at the base on County Road 304. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lohn | - | Damaging thunderstorm wind gusts of at least 60 mph knocked down Mesquite tree limbs that were four inches in diameter around Lohn. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lohn | - | A trained weather spotter reported this wind gust. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Lohn | - | Quarter size hail was covering US-283 just east of Lohn. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Lohn | - | Penny size hail was reported about three miles west of Lohn on highway 504. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Lohn | - | Water over a highway. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Lohn | - | Several roads were flooded in the community of Lohn. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lohn | - | Baseball size hail was reported near Lohn. This hail is from the same storm that went through Pear Valley. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lohn | - | Golfball size hail was also accompanied by 70 MPH winds. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Lohn | - | Law enforcement reported water flowing over highways in northern McCulloch County. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Lohn | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Lohn | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Lohn | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Lohn | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Lohn | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Lohn | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Lohn | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Lohn | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lohn | - | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Hail | Lohn | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Lohn | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Lohn | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Lohn | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Lohn | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lohn | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Lohn | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pear Valley | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Fife | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Mitchell Crossing | 7.6 miles | 15 | |
| Walker Crossing | 8.1 miles | 15 | |
| Waldrip | 8.2 miles | 14 | |
| Knight Crossing | 8.3 miles | 15 | |
| West Sweden | 9.3 miles | 12 | |
| Salt Gap | 10.1 miles | 14 |
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 Lohn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q10982133 | 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 1380100. 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.




