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Lydia, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Annona-Avery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75559. The Survey maps it on the Lydia quadrangle. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Lydia within Red River County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

113 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Lydia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,272 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 were 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 burning69
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJAMES LEE
4 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6218
3 September 2002Debris and open burning190 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 176
27 September 2006Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 656
27 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 179
24 September 2016Debris and open burning14 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6156
2 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 165
16 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJIMMY COX

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Red River County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lydia in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
March 2025Tornado (EF1)Lydia$10,000An EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds near 100 mph touched down on Farm-to-Market Road 44 South approximately one mile southwest of the town of Lydia, lifting a roof off of a shed adjacent to a residential home. The tornado then moved east northeast toward downtown Lydia, producing tree damage across County Road 4645 before crossing into Bowie County. This tornado tracked just under two miles in far eastern Red River County before exiting into Bowie County. However, it should be noted that the tornado intensity in Southeast Red River County near Lydia was weaker than its peak intensity in Bowie County, with wind speeds in Red River County estimated near 90 mph.
May 2024HailLydia-Nickel size hail reported.
December 2018HailLydia-Dime size hail was reported about 7 miles south of Avery on FM 911.
May 2009Flash FloodLydia-FM 44 was closed 1 mile west of the community of Lydia due to excessive heavy rainfall.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindLydia-A tree was downed across CR 4650.

Every storm recorded in Red River 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
Boxelder7.1 miles9
Avery7.4 miles8
Savannah (historical)7.8 miles8
Harts Bluff11.2 miles9
Annona12.6 miles9
Mena (historical)12.8 miles9
Maple12.8 miles9
English13.7 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.

Wikidata item Q131312728The 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 1361988. 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.