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Noodle, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hawley-Noodle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79536. The Survey maps it on the Noodle quadrangle. It stands 1,824 feet above sea level.

Noodle within Jones County

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

27 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Noodle between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,362 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
25 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM2660
23 September 2015Natural30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJONES FIRE
10 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined73 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRAVEL PIT
19 July 2019Debris and open burning200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID, JONES CNTY
14 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use125 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOODLE
4 May 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12-050
26 May 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS JONES CR 444

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Storms near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Noodle in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 17 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2005HailNoodle$15,000The hail damaged roofs on homes and shredded wheat crops.
June 2025HailNoodle-An amateur radio operator reported quarter size hail in Noodle, Texas.
June 2023HailNoodle-An amateur radio operator reported golf ball size hail 3 miles southeast of Noodle.
June 2023HailNoodle-The public reported slightly larger than baseball size hail in Noodle.
May 2023HailNoodle-A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail 4 miles west-southwest of Noodle.
May 2023HailNoodle-The picture was posted on Twitter.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNoodle-Damaging thunderstorms winds resulted in roof damage to the Noodle Community Center.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindNoodle-A trained spotter estimated winds at 50 to 60 mph.
April 2011HailNoodle-Hail from golfball to hen egg size fell seven miles north of Trent.
April 2007HailNoodle-Golfball size hail was reported just to the east of Noodle.
August 2007Flash FloodNoodle-Water was reported over FM1085.
March 2023HailNoodle-no account filed
June 2013HailNoodle-no account filed
June 2013HailNoodle-no account filed
April 2012HailNoodle-no account filed
April 2012HailNoodle-no account filed
April 2004HailNoodle-no account filed
April 2004HailNoodle-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindNoodle-no account filed
May 1999HailNoodle-no account filed
March 1997HailNoodle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jones 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
Stith6.9 miles12
Truby7.3 miles12
Hodges9.7 miles15
Hawley12.6 miles15
Anson13.5 miles11
Neinda13.6 miles12
North Abilene15.5 miles15
Radium15.9 miles11

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 NoodleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18354227The 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 1342656. 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.