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Nolan, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Blackwell-Nolan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79537. The Survey maps it on the Nolan quadrangle. It stands 2,493 feet above sea level.

Nolan within Nolan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

30 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Nolan between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,622 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural5
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4

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
11 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 179 AND HIGHWAY 153
1 September 2019Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH 70
31 August 2019Natural45 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH BALCH RANCH FIRE
31 August 2019Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH EAST CLACK RANCH FIRE
22 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOUBLE R RANCH GRASS FIRE
18 August 2018Debris and open burning12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBOUSH RANCH FIRE ON C. R.196
15 August 2020Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLACK RANCH FIRE
15 August 2020Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePECAN

Every fire recorded in Nolan County

Storms near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nolan in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 21 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2020Tornado (EF2)Nolan$2,000,000An EF-2 tornado touched down in southeast Nolan County and continued into Taylor County. About 14.5 miles southeast of Sweetwater, drone footage provided by AES Wind Generation Plant showed the EF-2 tornado damaged a large windmill turbine and tore off other windmill blades. The twister also caused roof damage to a residence and knocked down some high powered transmission poles and power lines.
May 2005Tornado (F0)Nolan$6,000The tornado damaged weak structures such as sheds. A windmill was demolished and some trees were shredded.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindNolan$5,000A car was blown over.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindNolan$5,000Roofs torn off of buildings and large trees blown down.
March 1993HailNolan$5,000Baseball-size hail broke the windshield of a storm spotter's vehicle near Nolan.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindNolan-A car port and small trailer house sustained significant damage on the Morrow Ranch.
May 2005Flash FloodNolan-Heavy rains flooded County road 126 near Nolan.
May 2002HailNolan-Spotters reported golfball size hail in Nolan.
May 1999HailNolan-Baseball size hail reported.
April 2019HailNolan-no account filed
March 2017HailNolan-no account filed
May 2016HailNolan-no account filed
May 2015HailNolan-no account filed
December 2015HailNolan-no account filed
May 2013HailNolan-no account filed
May 2012HailNolan-no account filed
March 2008HailNolan-no account filed
June 2007HailNolan-no account filed
May 2005HailNolan-no account filed
July 2005HailNolan-no account filed
June 2003HailNolan-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindNolan-no account filed
May 2002HailNolan-no account filed
May 2002HailNolan-no account filed
March 2000HailNolan-no account filed
March 1999HailNolan-no account filed
April 1997HailNolan-no account filed
April 1997HailNolan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nolan 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
Hylton10.3 miles12
Maryneal11.3 miles12
Toland13.1 miles14
Grimes13.2 miles14
Blackwell13.5 miles13
Shaufler13.6 miles13
Herndon14.5 miles14
Tesco15.2 miles14

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 NolanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7048169The 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 1342642. 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.