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Lott, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76656. The Survey maps it on the Lott quadrangle. 644 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 522 feet above sea level.

Lott within Falls County

Population over time

2 figures

Lott fell from 759 to 644 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
2010759
2020644-115 (-15%)

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

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Lott between 2006 and 2017, burning about 180 acres in total. None 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 burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
20 September 2015Debris and open burning24 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFALLS COUNTY BRUSH FIRE #1
4 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2012-114
16 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIKES FIRE
22 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined90 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2013-072
16 March 2009Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceODENBACH
11 December 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 401

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls County

Storms near this place

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lott in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 9 hail, 8 flash flood, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
January 1998Flash FloodLott$50,000A bridge on Highway 712 was washed out.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLott$10,000Trees and a trailer were damaged.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindLott$10,000Strong winds removed the roof of a shed, and blew down trees and power lines.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindLott$5,000A large tree was blown down into some power lines by high winds.
June 2007HailLott$2,000no account filed
June 2021FloodLott-An Emergency Manager relayed a report from Lott PD of high water in ditches and some water over Highway 320 just outside of the Lott city limits. Water was also reported on streets within the Lott city limits.
March 2011HailLott-Penny size hail fell in Lott.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindLott-An 18 wheeler was blown over on HWY 77 and a tree was uprooted.
March 2007Flash FloodLott-Numerous Farm-to-Market roads flooded in the southeastern part of the county.
March 2005HailLott-Nickel size hail reported in Westphalia.
March 2005HailLott-Penny size hail reported in Westphalia.
March 2005HailLott-Quarter to half dollar size hail reported in Westphalia.
August 2005Flash FloodLott-Route 320 underwater near Westphalia.
August 2005Flash FloodLott-Fast moving water over Highway 77 south of Golinda.
May 2004Flash FloodLott-Water was reported over FM 320 near Westphalia and West.
May 2004Flash FloodLott-Widespread flooding occurred across Western Falls County.
January 1998Flash FloodLott-Highway 320 was flooded and closed.
May 1997Flash FloodLott-Highway 77 was reported flooded between Lott and Travis.
May 2004HailLott-no account filed
May 2000HailLott-no account filed
March 1997Thunderstorm WindLott-no account filed
April 1997HailLott-no account filed
May 1994HailLott-no account filed
May 1994Thunderstorm WindLott-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Falls 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
Durango5.0 miles12
Tomlinson Hill5.0 miles8
Travis5.0 miles13
Chilton5.5 miles14
Triangle5.9 miles8
Dott6.2 miles14
Cedar Springs6.5 miles7
Westphalia7.2 miles13

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 LottAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975857The 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 1361858. 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.