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Needmore, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Meadow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79345. The Survey maps it on the Sundown SE quadrangle. It stands 3,415 feet above sea level.

Needmore within Terry 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

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Needmore between 2006 and 2013, burning about 166 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Natural2
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
12 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 August 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN 385 AND 211
12 July 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNEEDMORE
16 May 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3.5 SOUTH OF NEEDMORE
8 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 385 AND CR 230
6 March 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
27 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 385 AND CR 210
21 February 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest Service270/168

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Terry County

Storms near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Needmore in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 8 hail, 2 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
July 2009Thunderstorm WindNeedmore$200,000Thunderstorm winds resulted in a swath of damage from the Needmore and Meadow areas of northern Terry County southward to near Brownfield. Several buildings at the Needmore Gin sustained heavy roof damage, and the steeple was blown off of a church in Meadow. At least six utility poles also were reportedly blown down by the winds. A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured by the Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet site near Brownfield at 22:30 CST, where a large oak tree was reportedly split. No injuries were reported.
March 2000HailNeedmore$10,000no account filed
March 1993HailNeedmore$500A supercell in northern Terry County produced hail slightly smaller than golfball-size, according to the public. No significant damage resulted.
May 2025HailNeedmore-Numerous reports from storm chasers indicated a swath of hail from approximately six miles north of Brownfield to nine miles west-northwest of Brownfield. Hail ranged in size from tennis ball size to 3.50 inches in diameter. No damage was reported at the time.
May 2023FloodNeedmore-Law enforcement in Terry County reported water over the roadway on US Highway 385 between county roads 210 and 230.
July 2021FloodNeedmore-A nearly stationary thunderstorm led to brief heavy rainfall with additional lighter showers training over the same location. Terry County Sheriff's Office reported standing water on the southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 62/82 approximately 4 miles south of Meadow.
March 2018Tornado (EF0)Needmore-A video posted to social media showed a well developed landspout tornado in an open field just north of the intersection of Farm to Market Road 211 and US Highway 385 in Terry County.
May 1998HailNeedmore-no account filed
June 1997HailNeedmore-no account filed
June 1997HailNeedmore-no account filed
April 1997HailNeedmore-no account filed
June 1995HailNeedmore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Terry 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
Meadow6.4 miles9
Johnson10.0 miles7
Gomez10.4 miles7
Tokio10.4 miles8
Brownfield10.4 miles8
Lahey14.1 miles8
Foster18.2 miles8
Wellman19.9 miles7

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 NeedmoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711118The 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 1380237. 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.