London, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Overton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75684. The Survey maps it on the Price quadrangle.

London within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1935 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:48000
1939 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1973 USGS Price quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

477 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 477 fires within 5 miles of London between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,275 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 25 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
Debris and open burning	178
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	139
Power generation/transmission/distribution	67
Equipment and vehicle use	36
Arson/incendiarism	25
Railroad operations and maintenance	14
Natural	6
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2013	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	6308
9 September 2011	Natural	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 511
9 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 128
9 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	295 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 533
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
8 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 7125
8 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names London in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 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
March 2008	Tornado (EF1)	New London	$500,000	An EF1 tornado touched down near the community of New London, Texas. Numerous trees and powerlines were downed and a building was damaged near the intersection of county road 108 and farm to market road 850. Damage was also witnessed to a home, a metal building and dozen of trees along Dill Road. Additional damage was noted along U.S. 259, 4 miles south of Kilgore, Texas where the tornado downed several trees and a metal building suffered damage.
October 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	New London	$50,000	Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds, some of which fell upon power lines.
November 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	New London	$50,000	Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds, some of which fell upon power lines.
November 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	New London	$50,000	no account filed
April 2015	Flash Flood	Old London	$10,000	County Road 111 was washed out in the New London community. A vehicle fell into the washout area of the roadway but they were evacuated from their vehicle.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Old London	-	Tree downed on FM Road 2089 just north of the intersection with FM Road 838 south of Overton.
April 2023	Hail	Old London	-	Dime to half dollar size hail fell and covered the ground along FM 838 just south of Overton and New London.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Old London	-	Power lines were downed in and near the New London community.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Old London	-	Trees were blown down at the intersection of FM 838 and FM 2089.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Old London	-	Power lines were downed on Pinkston Drive in New London.
April 2020	Hail	Old London	-	Nickel size hail fell near New London.
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Old London	-	Trees were downed at the intersection of Highway 42 and Highway 323 near New London.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	New London	-	Trees down on Highway 42 near FM 850 in New London.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Old London	-	Power lines were downed.
October 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	New London	-	Trees were downed on FM 1513 in the New London community.
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Old London	-	Power lines were downed near the New London community.
March 2016	Flash Flood	Old London	-	Flooded roadway at State Highway 42 and County Road 111.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Old London	-	At least two dozen trees were downed from the 323/42 intersection and FM. 1513 near the New London community.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	New London	-	A tree was downed near SH. 42 near New London.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	New London	-	Several trees were blown down.
January 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	New London	-	Trees were blown down by high winds. North Texas,A thunderstorm that developed at 0200 CST on the 18th over southern Comanche County moved rapidly northeast and became severe over northern Hamilton County. This severe cell continued moving northeastward at up to 50 mph through 0700 CST, producing widespread hail up to softball size and wind damage across the south-central and northeastern portions of North Texas. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage was caused by the storm.
February 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	New London	-	Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind.
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	New London	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
Old London	0.3 miles	13
New London	0.6 miles	13
Friars	2.1 miles	13
Turnertown	2.9 miles	13
Selman City	3.0 miles	13
Overton	3.5 miles	15
Joinerville	4.3 miles	13
Sexton City	4.4 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034643. 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.