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.
Population over time
3 figuresNew 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 987 | |
| 2010 | 998 | +11 (+1%) |
| 2020 | 958 | -40 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1935 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:48000
- 1939 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1973 USGS Price quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
500 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 189 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 142 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 72 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 34 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 26 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 17 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2013 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6308 |
| 9 September 2011 | Natural | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 511 |
| 9 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 128 |
| 9 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 295 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 533 |
| 9 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 7125 |
| 7 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 398 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 514 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | New London | $500,000 | An 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 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | $50,000 | Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds, some of which fell upon power lines. |
| November 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | $50,000 | Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds, some of which fell upon power lines. |
| November 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | - | Trees down on Highway 42 near FM 850 in New London. |
| October 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | - | Trees were downed on FM 1513 in the New London community. |
| January 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | - | A tree was downed near SH. 42 near New London. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| January 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | New 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 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | - | Numerous trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind. |
| March 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | New London | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 0.6 miles | 13 | |
| Old London | 0.9 miles | 13 | |
| Friars | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Overton | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Turnertown | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Selman City | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Sexton City | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Jacobs | 4.7 miles | 15 |
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 London | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981533 | The 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.





