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.
Population over time
2 figuresLorenzo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,147 | |
| 2020 | 964 | -183 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1965 USGS Lorenzo quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
18 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS BETWEEN RALLS&LORENZO |
| 23 August 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LORENZO 6280 |
| 18 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7/18 GRASS FIRE |
| 12 July 2011 | Natural | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LORENZO CRP |
| 28 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 23 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 378 |
| 29 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorenzo | $100,000 | Law 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 2010 | Flash Flood | Lorenzo | $100,000 | Local 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorenzo | $25,000 | A 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Lorenzo | $15,000 | Numerous 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorenzo | $10,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind caused severe damage to the roof of a house. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Lorenzo | $500 | A 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorenzo | $250 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Lorenzo | - | A report from the public was received of quarter size hail in Lorenzo. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorenzo | - | Local broadcast media relayed a report that a brick facade of an abandoned building was blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Lorenzo | - | A couple of reports were received of golf ball size hail in the town of Lorenzo. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Lorenzo | - | An emergency manager in Crosby County reported a swath of ping pong ball size hail from Lorenzo to Ralls. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Lorenzo | - | Local broadcast media relayed a photograph of a brief rope tornado approximately six miles north of Lorenzo. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lorenzo | - | An NWS storm survey revealed several irrigation center pivots overturned to the north and north-northeast of Lorenzo. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Lorenzo | - | 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 2009 | Hail | Lorenzo | - | Skywarn storm spotters reported that golfball size hail covered the ground in Lorenzo. |
| March 2007 | Flash Flood | Lorenzo | - | Multiple reports indicated that flash flooding resulted in flood waters in city streets in Ralls and Lorenzo. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Lorenzo | - | 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 2006 | Hail | Lorenzo | - | Hail that ranged in size from peas to quarters was reported in Lorenzo. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Lorenzo | - | Cotton crop damage. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Lorenzo | - | The Lorenzo EOC reported dime-size hail in Lorenzo. No damage was noted. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Lorenzo | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Lorenzo | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Lorenzo | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Lorenzo | - | no account filed |
| February 2000 | Hail | Lorenzo | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Lorenzo | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Lorenzo | - | no account filed |
| September 1995 | Hail | Lorenzo | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Lorenzo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981804 | The 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.


