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Lone Oak, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lone Oak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75453. The Survey maps it on the Lone Oak South quadrangle. 643 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 564 feet above sea level.

Lone Oak within Hunt County

Population over time

3 figures

Lone Oak grew from 521 to 643 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000521
2010598+77 (+15%)
2020643+45 (+8%)

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

105 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Lone Oak between 2003 and 2020, burning about 751 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
25 September 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCITY LIMITS FIRE
24 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE 2131803
11 September 2013Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROLLING HILLS FIRE
1 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 69 & FM 513
9 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOYER
9 August 2008Debris and open burning155 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWIND POIN NORTH BRANCH - 110
8 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGS 4901624
8 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGF 4904764

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hunt County

Storms near this place

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lone Oak in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 10 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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
October 2010Tornado (EF0)Lone Oak$500,000An EF0 tornado hit the Rolling Hills subdivision southwest of Lone Oak. Ten homes sustained damage with one home completely destroyed. The destroyed home was an unoccupied apartment over a garage. The apartment was lifted up from its wood beam supports and displaced along the track of the twister. In addition, tree damage was observed, and some trees and tree limbs damaged homes and cars. The maximum winds were estimated to be between 80-85 mph.
October 2007LightningLone Oak$100,000A church on Highway 69 South was hit by lightning and burned to the ground. The fire marshall reported the building was a total loss.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindLone Oak$100,000Barns were blown down, trees a blown down onto houses and utility poles blown down.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindLone Oak$50,000A roof was damaged by high winds.
October 2010HailLone Oak$15,000Golf ball size hail was reported in Lone Oak.
May 2009FloodLone Oak$10,000The Sheriff's Office reported that several county roads remained under water.
April 2007HailLone Oak$5,000Golfball-size hail reported.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLone Oak$5,000Power poles and tree limbs broken.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLone Oak$5,000Numerous trees and power lines down between Cumby and Lone Oak.
May 2009Flash FloodLone Oak$3,000Several county roads were underwater.
January 2010Thunderstorm WindLone Oak$1,000One power pole was knocked down south of the town of Lone Oak.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLone Oak-Emergency manager reported measured wind gust of 61 mph in Lone Oak.
August 2020HailLone Oak-A trained spotter reported half-dollar sized hail in the city of Loan Oak, TX.
November 2018HailLone Oak-Amateur radio reported half-dollar sized hail near the intersection of Route 69 and FM 513, approximately 13 miles northeast of the city of Quinlan, TX.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindLone Oak-Limbs, branches and trees were blown down near Lone Oak.
July 2005HailLone Oak-Penny size hail reported on Highway 69.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLone Oak-Large tree limbs and a sign knocked down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindLone Oak-Strong winds blew down a large tree.
April 2015HailLone Oak-no account filed
January 1999HailLone Oak-no account filed
May 1999HailLone Oak-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLone Oak-no account filed
November 1997HailLone Oak-no account filed
November 1994HailLone Oak-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hunt 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
Wieland6.5 miles6
Weiland6.7 miles6
Dixon6.8 miles6
West Tawakoni8.5 miles13
Cash8.9 miles13
Center Point9.2 miles6
Boles Home9.2 miles13
Mount Bethel9.6 miles6

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 Lone OakAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q613957The 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 1340378. 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.