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Lois, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Valley View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76272. The Survey maps it on the Valley View quadrangle.

Lois within Cooke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

162 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Lois between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,174 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined57
Debris and open burning49
Equipment and vehicle use32
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking4
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
7 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJL DRIVE
28 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
26 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooke County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lois in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 3 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
September 2025HailLois$25,000A public report indicated 2 inch diameter hail near Interstate 35 midway between Valley View and Sanger.
May 2024Flash FloodLois$6,000Emergency management reported flooding on the I-35 service road south of Valley View with a vehicle water rescue.
November 2021HailLois-A public report indicated quarter sized hail 3 miles east-southeast of Lois, TX.
April 2011HailLois-Penny sized hail fell 5 miles north of Sanger or 3 miles south of Valley View.

Every storm recorded in Cooke 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
Valley View3.7 miles8
Era4.5 miles8
Hemming7.3 miles9
Road Runner7.5 miles9
Hood9.1 miles13
Leo9.2 miles8
Mountain Springs9.5 miles9
Burns City10.4 miles13

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 LoisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127604114The 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 1361621. 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.