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New London, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Overton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75682. The Survey maps it on the Price quadrangle. 958 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 551 feet above sea level.

New London within Rusk County

Population over time

3 figures

New London fell from 987 to 958 between 2000 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
2000987
2010998+11 (+1%)
2020958-40 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

500 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 500 fires within 5 miles of New London between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,930 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 26 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 burning189
Missing data/not specified/undetermined142
Power generation/transmission/distribution72
Equipment and vehicle use34
Arson/incendiarism26
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Natural7
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2013Fireworks2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6308
9 September 2011Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 511
9 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 128
9 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution295 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 533
9 September 1997Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 7125
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined398 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 514

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk County

Storms near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New London in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 10 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 2008Tornado (EF1)New London$500,000An EF1 tornado touched down near the community of New London, Texas. Numerous trees and powerlines were downed and a building was damaged near the intersection of county road 108 and farm to market road 850. Damage was also witnessed to a home, a metal building and dozen of trees along Dill Road. Additional damage was noted along U.S. 259, 4 miles south of Kilgore, Texas where the tornado downed several trees and a metal building suffered damage.
October 1993Thunderstorm WindNew London$50,000Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds, some of which fell upon power lines.
November 1993Thunderstorm WindNew London$50,000Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds, some of which fell upon power lines.
November 1996Thunderstorm WindNew London$50,000no account filed
April 2019Thunderstorm WindNew London-Trees down on Highway 42 near FM 850 in New London.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindNew London-Trees were downed on FM 1513 in the New London community.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindNew London-A tree was downed near SH. 42 near New London.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindNew London-Several trees were blown down.
January 1995Thunderstorm WindNew London-Trees were blown down by high winds. North Texas,A thunderstorm that developed at 0200 CST on the 18th over southern Comanche County moved rapidly northeast and became severe over northern Hamilton County. This severe cell continued moving northeastward at up to 50 mph through 0700 CST, producing widespread hail up to softball size and wind damage across the south-central and northeastern portions of North Texas. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage was caused by the storm.
February 1993Thunderstorm WindNew London-Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind.
March 1998Thunderstorm WindNew London-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rusk 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
London0.6 miles13
Old London0.9 miles13
Friars2.0 miles13
Overton3.2 miles15
Turnertown3.4 miles13
Selman City3.5 miles13
Sexton City3.8 miles15
Jacobs4.7 miles15

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 LondonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981533The 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 1342494. 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.