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Looneyville, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Cushing-Douglass census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75760. The Survey maps it on the Cushing quadrangle. It stands 479 feet above sea level.

Looneyville within Nacogdoches County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Looneyville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 281 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2

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
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 538
5 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 217
28 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 568
26 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 580
20 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 485
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 525
13 September 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches 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 Looneyville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Cushing Mtn Mine and MillIronProducer

Every working recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Looneyville in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2018Thunderstorm WindLooneyville$8,000A localized but non-severe microburst with estimated wind gusts between 45-55 mph uprooted a weakened but top-heavy 200 year old sweet gum tree in front of a home on County Road 343 between the Lilbert and Looneyville communities. This tree landed near a parked car and damaged the windshield of the vehicle. Several branches were snapped, and a metal roof was peeled off of an outbuilding. Small hail was observed as well.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindLooneyville-Trees and power lines downed along FM Road 225 between Cushing and Douglass.
June 2024Flash FloodLooneyville-Flash flooding reported along FM Road 225 between Douglass and Cushing, resulting in the road being closed.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindLooneyville-A tree was downed on FM 225 just south of Cushing.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLooneyville-Trees were blown down south of Cushing.
March 2016Flash FloodLooneyville-Excessive heavy rainfall resulted in water over the roadway on FM. 95 two miles south of U.S. 59. Water was also over the roadway on FM. 343 near Industrial Blvd. in Nacogdoches, Texas.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindLooneyville-Trees were downed in Loonyville, Texas.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindLooneyville-Trees down along Hwy 343.
March 2002HailLooneyville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nacogdoches 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
Lilbert3.5 miles11
Cushing3.6 miles11
Nat3.6 miles11
Oak Flat3.7 miles11
Trawick5.4 miles11
Dextra5.6 miles11
County Line5.7 miles11
Sacul5.8 miles11

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 LooneyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18350294The 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 1378609. 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.