Lowake, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Eola-Paint Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76875. The Survey maps it on the Lowake quadrangle. It stands 1,752 feet above sea level.

Lowake within Concho County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1891 USGS Hayrick quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Hayrick quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1921 USGS Lowake quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Miles quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Lowake quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Robert Lee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Lowake between 2006 and 2011, burning about 118 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
3 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	VINCENT RANCH
6 July 2007	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 June 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WEST OF LOWAKE
4 February 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
18 January 2011	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DAIRY ROAD & LOWAKE ROAD
11 January 2006	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 January 2006	Smoking	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Concho County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lowake in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 7 hail, 3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1995	Tornado (F0)	Lowake	$50,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lowake	$3,000	A workshed was destroyed by high winds
June 2003	Hail	Lowake	$2,000	Car windows broken.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lowake	$1,000	Winds estimated up to 60 mph ripped a patio roof off of a barn.
May 1998	Tornado (F0)	Lowake	$1,000	Tornado destroyed an irrigation system
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Lowake	-	Damaging thunderstorm winds knocked down eight power poles and resulted in some structural damage at the Lowake Steak House.
May 1995	Tornado (F0)	Lowake	-	Severe storms produced hail in a few locations on the South Plains and minor flash flooding on the Edwards Plateau on the 30th. However, severe storms pounded many areas of West Texas on the 31st. A brief tornado was reported by spotters in Lamb County. A National Weather Service coop observer reported vehicle damage due to softball-size hail in Garza County. Very large hail also fell at Dickens, but caused only minor damage. Strong winds knocked down power poles east of Snyder. A tornado near Hermleigh damaged three homes, a barn, and a storage shed. Strong winds also uprooted trees, damaged roofs, and broke windows around 1545 CST in Roscoe. Nearby, Sweetwater was the hardest hit by the storm. Hail and high winds caused over $1,250,000 in damages to roofs, vehicles, buildings, windows, high-voltage towers, billboards, and trees. One man was slightly injured when winds rolled his tractor-semitrailer on Interstate 20 at Sweetwater. At 1615 CST, a tornado moved through open fields in Coke County, and another moved south through Runnels County after 1630 CST. Two weak, brief tornadoes were reported by spotters and sheriff's offices north of San Angelo and in northeast Concho County.
April 2026	Hail	Lowake	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Lowake	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Lowake	-	no account filed
November 2011	Hail	Lowake	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Lowake	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Lowake	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Concho 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Paint Rock	9.2 miles	14
Eola	11.6 miles	11
Henderson Chapel	14.1 miles	11
Concho	14.2 miles	16
Vick	15.6 miles	11
Millersview	20.2 miles	12
Eden	27.1 miles	11
Live Oak	30.5 miles	12

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 Lowake	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6693059	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 1361897. 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.