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New Deal, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lubbock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79350. The Survey maps it on the New Deal quadrangle. 730 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,301 feet above sea level.

New Deal within Lubbock County

Population over time

3 figures

New Deal grew from 637 to 730 between 1980 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
1980637
2010794
2020730-64 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

37 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of New Deal between 2006 and 2019, burning about 724 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Natural3
Smoking2

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
1 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7802 N. CEDAR AVENUE
7 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 August 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTAL AID GRASS FIRE
9 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service7802 N. CEDAR AVENUE
6 May 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE, RIGHT OF WAY
2 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 May 2006Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lubbock County

Storms near this place

46 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Deal in 46 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 31 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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
May 2001HailNew Deal$100,000Baseball size hail was reported by an off-duty NWS meteorologist.
June 2013HailNew Deal$50,000A hailswath consisting of large to occasionally giant hail accompanied a slow-moving supercell from near New Deal southward to east Lubbock and to Highway 84 near Loop 289. Initially, baseball size hail was observed on FM Road 1294 one mile east of Interstate 27 near New Deal. The largest hail of approximately softball size fell in northeast Lubbock along East 13th Street around 5:15 pm CST. As this supercell continued southward, the large hail diminished to golf ball and then quarter size. Fortunately, the majority of the large hail fell over sparsely populated sections of east Lubbock; however, vehicles traveling along the east end of Loop 289 did suffer various degrees of body and glass damage. Total property damage from hail is estimated at $50,000. The greatest blow was dealt to area cotton crops primarily in southeast Lubbock County where hail and torrential rains destroyed an estimated 28,000 acres according to the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. The value of cotton loss is estimated at $14M.
May 2001HailNew Deal$30,000Golfball to softball size hail was reported by a KCBD television weather broadcaster.
March 2007Heavy RainNew Deal$10,000Heavy rainfall and wet driving conditions contributed to a vehicle accident along Interstate 27 south of New Deal. Three children that were passengers in the vehicle were transported to local hospitals with injuries.
June 1996HailNew Deal$10,000no account filed
May 2009Thunderstorm WindNew Deal$5,000A severe thunderstorm produced a swath of damaging winds from just east of New Deal to Idalou shortly after 19:30 CST on the 26th. Initial reports indicated that the winds broke a utility pole four miles east of New Deal along Farm to Market Road 1729. As the damaging winds spread southeastward, broadcast television automated reporting sites measured intermittent gusts up to 62 mph in the Idalou vicinity where severe wind gusts preceded large hail.
March 1993HailNew Deal$5,000As the Lubbock County storm continued northeast, golfball-size hail was reported in New Deal by the New Deal Police Department. The hail damaged windows and vehicles in the city.
May 1993HailNew Deal$500The public reported dime to golf ball-size hail in New Deal. No significant damage resulted.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Deal-A swath of severe thunderstorm winds occurred from north-central Lubbock County near New Deal spreading southward to the east side of the city of Lubbock from 1915 CST through 1933 CST. Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet sites near New Deal and Lubbock measured wind gusts to 65 mph. The Automated Surface Observing Station at Lubbock International Airport measured a wind gust to 67 mph. Additionally, power outages were reported near the intersection of Farm to Market Road 1294 and University Avenue after the storm had passed.
June 2025HailNew Deal-A cluster of thunderstorms over central Lubbock County produced three separate swaths of hail. A report was received of golf ball size hail in the town of New Deal.
June 2025HailNew Deal-The New Deal fire department reported quarter size hail in New Deal.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNew Deal-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near New Deal measured a wind gust of 64 mph.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNew Deal-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near New Deal measured a wind gust of 64 mph.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindNew Deal-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near New Deal measured severe wind gusts from 1438 CST through 1440 CST. A peak wind gust of 59 mph was measured from 1439 through 1440 CST.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Deal-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near New Deal measured severe wind gusts at 1718 CST and 1728 CST. A peak wind gust of 68 mph was measured at 1718 CST.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Deal-A Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site near New Deal measured a wind gust of 70 mph.
June 2019HailNew Deal-A picture posted to social media depicted hail up to the size of baseballs at 1850 CST in New Deal. At 1859 CST, three inch hail was reported seven miles east of New Deal by a trained spotter. This hail was from one of several severe thunderstorms that developed off of the outflow of the initial thunderstorm in southwestern Lubbock County.
May 2019FloodNew Deal-A NWS employee reported that water was flooding the northbound lanes of Interstate 27 at New Deal. This area had been hit with several hours of training thunderstorms with torrential rainfall prior to this report.
March 2012HailNew Deal-A trained storm spotter measured 1.25 inch diameter hail two miles north of New Deal. No damage was reported.
October 2007HailNew Deal-Nickel size hail was reported in New Deal by storm chasers.
September 2006HailNew Deal-The right-moving (cyclonic) member of the former Hockley County storm produced hail ranging in size from pennies to quarters as it moved eastward over northern Lubbock County and southern Hale County.
March 2005HailNew Deal-Nickel to Quarter-sized hail at the Matlock Cotton Gin near Estacado.
June 2003HailNew Deal-Storm spotters reported golfball size hail.
May 2002HailNew Deal-A storm chaser reported quarter to golfball size hail.
June 2002HailNew Deal-Hail up to dime size was reported to be one foot deep in portions of town.
June 2002Flash FloodNew Deal-Four to five inches of rain in two hours resulted in flooding in town. Some roads had one to two feet of water covering them.
June 2002Flash FloodNew Deal-A farmer reported 4.5 inches of rain in 1.5 hours. Several Farm-to-Market roads were flooded.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindNew Deal-A 60 mph wind gust was measured by the USDA meteorological tower near the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 1294 and I-27.
November 2001Tornado (F0)New Deal-A citizen traveling on I-27 reported a stationary, weak tornado over open country east of New Deal. This tornado was confirmed by an off-duty NWS employee.
June 1995HailNew Deal-Numerous severe thunderstorms affected the South Plains on the 4th. There were many reports of dime- to golf ball-size hail, but hail as large as softballs fell near Wellman and north of Lubbock (where several cars were damaged). Spotters reporteda brief tornado in southeast Hockley County. Also, some flooding occurred in northwest Lubbock County and in southwest Hale County (where FM 37 was flooded between Interstate 27 and Cotton Center).
May 1993HailNew Deal-The public reported dime to golf ball-size hail in New Deal. No significant damage resulted.
May 2005HailNew Deal-no account filed
May 2005HailNew Deal-no account filed
May 2005HailNew Deal-no account filed
June 2005HailNew Deal-no account filed
June 2003HailNew Deal-no account filed
June 2003HailNew Deal-no account filed
June 2002HailNew Deal-no account filed
June 2002HailNew Deal-no account filed
June 2002HailNew Deal-no account filed
June 1999HailNew Deal-no account filed
September 1996Tornado (F0)New Deal-no account filed
August 1996Flash FloodNew Deal-no account filed
April 1995HailNew Deal-no account filed
June 1995HailNew Deal-no account filed
June 1995HailNew Deal-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lubbock 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
Liberty4.7 miles10
Abernathy6.6 miles10
Caldwell6.7 miles10
Kitalou8.1 miles8
Broadview8.5 miles10
Heckville9.2 miles7
Shallowater9.2 miles10
Idalou9.5 miles8

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 New DealAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978321The 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 1363706. 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.