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Lone Elm, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Waxahachie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75167. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Midlothian quadrangle.

Lone Elm within Ellis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

72 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Lone Elm between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,321 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Debris and open burning25
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
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
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service011-210
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service011-193
26 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresTexas A & M Forest Service013-177
10 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLONG BRANCH FIRE
1 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM664
7 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service860 SHEPARKON
5 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service015-123
4 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lone Elm: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Texas Industries Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lone Elm in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2012HailLone Elm$300,000Ping pong ball sized hail was reported 3 miles south of Midlothian.
April 2015Flash FloodLone Elm$250,000Flash flooding occurred in downtown Waxahachie resulting in water several feet deep in some businesses. The College St Pub, Waxahachie Police Department, and Ellis Associate Surveyors, all located close together between North College St and North Jackson St, reported flooding in their buildings. Outside the pub, the water was estimated to be 3-4 feet deep. Up to 3 inches of rain fell in less than 2 hours.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindLone Elm$25,000Thunderstorm winds blew a one foot diameter tree onto a single family residence. A two foot diameter tree was blown over onto FM 875.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindLone Elm$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew a tree down onto the roadway in the 800 block of Cox Rd in Waxahachie.
April 2011HailLone Elm$3,000Golfball sized hail fell just west of Lone Elm.
May 2021Tornado (EFU)Lone Elm-Video was obtained of a tornado east of the Shadow Creek Pumpkin farm. Radar estimated the circulation location near FM 875 and South Prong Creek. No damage was reported or found with this tornado.
February 2017HailLone Elm-There was nickel size hail reported 2.38 miles northwest of Lone Elm.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindLone Elm-The Midlothian AWOS recorded a wind gust of 105 mph as the Midlothian / Ovilla / Glenn Heights tornado was beginning.
April 2011HailLone Elm-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Sardis1.4 miles10
Waxahachie4.1 miles10
Mountain Peak5.2 miles17
Midlothian6.3 miles10
Sterrett6.4 miles10
Nena6.7 miles9
Ward6.8 miles17
Boz7.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1340367. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.