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Lorenzo, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lorenzo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79343. The Survey maps it on the Lorenzo quadrangle. 964 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,166 feet above sea level.

Lorenzo within Crosby County

Population over time

2 figures

Lorenzo fell from 1,147 to 964 between 2010 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
20101,147
2020964-183 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

18 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Lorenzo between 2006 and 2019, burning about 495 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS BETWEEN RALLS&LORENZO
23 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLORENZO 6280
18 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7/18 GRASS FIRE
12 July 2011Natural200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLORENZO CRP
28 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
23 May 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 April 2018Debris and open burning80 acresTexas A & M Forest Service378
29 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crosby County

Storms near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lorenzo in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 17 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindLorenzo$100,000Law enforcement personnel estimated wind gusts to 70 mph in Ralls. There was a report of one dozen power poles downed south of Lorenzo as well as a center pivot irrigation system destroyed.
July 2010Flash FloodLorenzo$100,000Local law enforcement officials initially reported flash flooding along U.S. Highway 82 between Lorenzo and Ralls, where several cars were reportedly stalled in flowing flood waters and high-water rescues were underway. Portions of that highway remained impassable through at least 02:35 CST. Additional motorists were stranded in flowing flood waters along Texas Highway 207 near Ralls.||Flash flooding in Blanco Canyon resulted in dramatic run-off and swelling of the White River. This run-off and associated river rises caused unusually high water flows at Silver Falls along the Caprock escarpment near U.S. Highway 82 east of Crosbyton, which persisted well into the daylight hours of the 4th. ||No injuries were reported.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindLorenzo$25,000A meteorologist with the Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet group reported a wind gust to 80 mph in Lorenzo. Additionally, a roof was torn off of a warehouse in Lorenzo.
March 2007Flash FloodLorenzo$15,000Numerous reports of flash flooding were reported along U.S. Highway 62/82 between Lorenzo and Crosbyton. Flowing flood waters along that highway contributed to a vehicle accident that resulted in two injuries.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindLorenzo$10,000Strong thunderstorm wind caused severe damage to the roof of a house.
April 2015HailLorenzo$500A storm chaser and public citizen reported hail of ping pong ball size to golf ball size as a supercell thunderstorm moved from south of Lorenzo to east of Caprock. A car's windshield and a window of a nearby building were damaged.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindLorenzo$250no account filed
May 2025HailLorenzo-A report from the public was received of quarter size hail in Lorenzo.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLorenzo-Local broadcast media relayed a report that a brick facade of an abandoned building was blown down by thunderstorm winds.
June 2025HailLorenzo-A couple of reports were received of golf ball size hail in the town of Lorenzo.
June 2025HailLorenzo-An emergency manager in Crosby County reported a swath of ping pong ball size hail from Lorenzo to Ralls.
May 2024Tornado (EFU)Lorenzo-Local broadcast media relayed a photograph of a brief rope tornado approximately six miles north of Lorenzo.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLorenzo-An NWS storm survey revealed several irrigation center pivots overturned to the north and north-northeast of Lorenzo.
July 2010Heavy RainLorenzo-Scattered showers and thunderstorms initially began to produce rainfall around midday on the 1st. This activity gradually evolved toward heavy tropical downpours, especially during the evening hours of the 3rd through the morning hours of the 4th.||The Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet sites near Ralls and White River Lake recorded storm total rainfall amounts of 6.74 inches and 6.10 inches respectively.||Four-day storm total rainfall amounts measured by the Crosbyton National Weather Service cooperative observer shattered records for Crosbyton per reports from the Crosby County Reporter-Examiner. The official observer measured 9.43 inches, which exceeded the local record for total July rainfall of 8.40 inches set in 1900.||Local agricultural officials reported that the rains resulted in no adverse impacts for Crosby County crops. As a result of the heavy rain and subsequent run-off, however, White River Lake experienced a rise of nine feet which crested on the 12th.
April 2009HailLorenzo-Skywarn storm spotters reported that golfball size hail covered the ground in Lorenzo.
March 2007Flash FloodLorenzo-Multiple reports indicated that flash flooding resulted in flood waters in city streets in Ralls and Lorenzo.
May 2006HailLorenzo-Storm spotters reported quarter size hail south of Lorenzo.Isolated severe thunderstorms quickly erupted along a convergent surface pressure trough over the central South Plains of west Texas during the late afternoon of the 3rd. This activity proved to be the first severe storms in an active severe weather outbreak across the region.
June 2006HailLorenzo-Hail that ranged in size from peas to quarters was reported in Lorenzo.
June 2005HailLorenzo-Cotton crop damage.
May 1993HailLorenzo-The Lorenzo EOC reported dime-size hail in Lorenzo. No damage was noted.
May 2019HailLorenzo-no account filed
March 2005HailLorenzo-no account filed
June 2005HailLorenzo-no account filed
June 2003HailLorenzo-no account filed
February 2000HailLorenzo-no account filed
July 2000HailLorenzo-no account filed
May 1999HailLorenzo-no account filed
September 1995HailLorenzo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crosby 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
Estacado5.8 miles7
Robertson7.4 miles7
Savage7.6 miles7
Ralls7.8 miles7
Farmer8.8 miles7
Cone11.7 miles7
Owens12.4 miles7
Cap Rock14.3 miles7

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 LorenzoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981804The 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 1361798. 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.