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Lovelady, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lovelady census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75851. The Survey maps it on the Lovelady North quadrangle. 570 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 299 feet above sea level.

Lovelady within Houston County

Population over time

2 figures

Lovelady fell from 649 to 570 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
2010649
2020570-79 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Lovelady between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,054 acres in total. 5 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
28 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMALLEY GRASS FIRE
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOUSTON 15:20
2 September 2000Natural25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 367
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2013Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2013-279
6 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lovelady in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
April 2014Tornado (EF1)Lovelady1 hurt, $120,000A tornado touched down in Lovelady near a mobile home area then tracked for just under a mile before lifting near Lovelady High School. The worst damage occurred to mobile homes near the start of the track. Two large trees were uprooted and fell onto one mobile home which sustained severe damage to the central part of the structure. This mobile home was moved off its foundation but remained upright. The resident was at home but suffered only minor injuries as she was not in the part of the home that was most severely damaged. Another single wide trailer adjacent to the first damaged mobile home was rolled off its foundation. A third trailer about 50 yards toward the north northeast had its roof peeled off. This damage was rated EF1. Minor damaged occurred at Lovelady High School where some ceiling panels were lifted off near an the entrance area and numerous large limbs were stripped off trees. This damage was rated EF0.
April 1997Tornado (F1)Lovelady$40,000no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindLovelady$35,000Trees and power lines down across southern parts of the county.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLovelady$35,000no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindLovelady$25,000Numerous trees down.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindLovelady$15,000Strong winds moved through Lovelady damaging a bank.
May 1999HailLovelady$15,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLovelady$10,000There were trees and power lines downed in and around Lovelady.
March 2000HailLovelady$10,000no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindLovelady$8,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
May 2005HailLovelady$5,000no account filed
July 1996HailLovelady$5,000no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindLovelady$5,000no account filed
April 2011HailLovelady$3,000A severe thunderstorm produced hail up to golf ball size in Loveland.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindLovelady$3,000Reports of trees down along FM 230 in Lovelady.
August 2018HailLovelady-Penny sized hail was observed along FM 230.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindLovelady-A tree was downed on Highway 19 just north of Lovelady.
May 2016Flash FloodLovelady-SH 19 and FM 1280 were closed due to high flood waters covering the roadway.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindLovelady-Multiple trees were blown down along FM 230 near Lovelady.
December 2012Tornado (EF0)Lovelady-The brief EF-0 was observed by law enforcement near the scene of the earlier EF-3 tornado along Highway 287. Some debris was lofted but there was little to no structural damage.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLovelady-Trees were reported blown down in the town of Lovelady.
January 2007Flash FloodLovelady-Flooding reported between the towns of Weldon and Lovelady.
May 2007HailLovelady-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Smith Grove3.3 miles9
Antioch (historical)3.7 miles10
Center Grove4.3 miles9
Lone Pine4.3 miles9
Pearsons Chapel5.5 miles9
Holly5.7 miles11
Sorghumville5.9 miles10
Cut6.8 miles9

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 LoveladyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q974785The 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 1361884. 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.