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Lyons, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Somerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77863. The Survey maps it on the Lyons quadrangle. 236 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 292 feet above sea level.

Lyons within Burleson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

220 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Lyons between 2005 and 2020, burning about 739 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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 burning107
Missing data/not specified/undetermined70
Equipment and vehicle use19
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBIG CREEK PK
7 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOSS OAK
7 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 201
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSNOOK MUTUAL AID
4 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLYDE SMITH
4 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service10166 TX 36S GRASS FIRE
27 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burleson County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyons in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 13 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2012Thunderstorm WindLyons$30,000Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a tin constructed tire shop north of Somerville on Highway 36.
January 1998HailLyons$20,000no account filed
April 2015HailLyons$10,000Tennis ball sized hail was reported in Lyons.
January 1998HailLyons$10,000no account filed
April 1997HailLyons$10,000no account filed
December 2002HailLyons$2,0001.00 inch hail in Lyons.
March 2025HailLyons-Hail was reported via MPING near Lyons.
April 2024HailLyons-Quarter sized hail occurred.
March 2018HailLyons-Nickel sized hail was observed.
March 2018HailLyons-Nickel sized hail was observed.
May 2017HailLyons-Quarter sized hail was reported.
May 2017HailLyons-Nickel sized hail was reported.
March 2009HailLyons-Nickel-sized hail was reported along FM 60.
July 2013HailLyons-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Burleson 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
Center Line3.0 miles8
Somerville3.3 miles10
Big Creek3.7 miles10
Beaver Creek4.3 miles8
Frenstat4.8 miles8
Birch6.0 miles8
Harmony6.6 miles8
Merle6.9 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 LyonsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6709761The 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 1362010. 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.