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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.

Lohn within McCulloch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

22 since 2006

Regional 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural1
Smoking1

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
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2006Smoking50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2006Natural30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 July 2009Debris and open burning80 acresTexas A & M Forest Service316 FIRE
5 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 June 2008Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 June 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCulloch County

Storms near this place

34 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2002Thunderstorm WindLohn$80,000The 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 2004Thunderstorm WindLohn$10,000Emergency manager reported a car blown off the road and many trees downed around the Lohn area.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindLohn$5,000High winds accompanied the baseball size hail. A barn roof was blown off by the high winds.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLohn-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 2023HailLohn-Public reported quarter size hail.
April 2021HailLohn-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 2021HailLohn-The public reported half dollar to ping pong ball size hail near Lohn in northern Mcculloch County.
April 2017HailLohn-An amateur radio spotter reported quarter size hail.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindLohn-A coop observer reported a power pole snapped at the base on County Road 304.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLohn-Damaging thunderstorm wind gusts of at least 60 mph knocked down Mesquite tree limbs that were four inches in diameter around Lohn.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindLohn-A trained weather spotter reported this wind gust.
May 2008HailLohn-Quarter size hail was covering US-283 just east of Lohn.
March 2007HailLohn-Penny size hail was reported about three miles west of Lohn on highway 504.
June 2003Flash FloodLohn-Water over a highway.
May 2002Flash FloodLohn-Several roads were flooded in the community of Lohn.
May 2002HailLohn-Baseball size hail was reported near Lohn. This hail is from the same storm that went through Pear Valley.
May 2002HailLohn-Golfball size hail was also accompanied by 70 MPH winds.
May 2002Flash FloodLohn-Law enforcement reported water flowing over highways in northern McCulloch County.
June 2014HailLohn-no account filed
May 2009HailLohn-no account filed
May 2009HailLohn-no account filed
May 2009HailLohn-no account filed
March 2008HailLohn-no account filed
March 2008HailLohn-no account filed
May 2007HailLohn-no account filed
April 2007HailLohn-no account filed
May 2002HailLohn-no account filed
March 2001HailLohn-no account filed
October 2001HailLohn-no account filed
October 2001HailLohn-no account filed
April 2000HailLohn-no account filed
June 1998HailLohn-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLohn-no account filed
March 1997HailLohn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCulloch 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
Pear Valley4.5 miles13
Fife4.8 miles14
Mitchell Crossing7.6 miles15
Walker Crossing8.1 miles15
Waldrip8.2 miles14
Knight Crossing8.3 miles15
West Sweden9.3 miles12
Salt Gap10.1 miles14

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 LohnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q10982133The 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.