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Noonday, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Bullard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75703. The Survey maps it on the Saline Bay quadrangle. 612 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 466 feet above sea level.

Noonday within Smith County

Population over time

3 figures

Noonday grew from 515 to 612 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
2000515
2010777+262 (+51%)
2020612-165 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

320 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 320 fires within 5 miles of Noonday between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,067 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 22 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 burning195
Missing data/not specified/undetermined62
Arson/incendiarism22
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony4

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 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceC.R. 165
8 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15270 TIMBER HILL DR.
6 September 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1130 AND CR 1141
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBIG TIMBER AND OLD CAMBELL
3 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1227 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith County

Storms near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Noonday in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 16 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
December 2015Flash FloodNoonday$50,000Several county roads were flooded and closed including 419, 420, 436, 434, 433, 168, 411, 494 and 492. Several vehicles were flooded out across these county roads across the Smith County.
September 2022LightningNoonday$10,000Lightning struck a building near Noonday, setting it on fire.
April 2026HailNoonday-Hail ranging from pea to quarter size covered the ground in the Noonday area.
February 2024HailNoonday-Golf ball size hail reported northwest of Bullard.
February 2024HailNoonday-Golf ball size hail reported in Noonday.
February 2024HailNoonday-Baseball size hail reported along County Road 155 and Loop 49 with damage to vehicles.
May 2024HailNoonday-Quarter size hail reported in Noonday.
December 2018FloodNoonday-FM 2868 over Saline Creek between Noonday and Flint was flooded and closed well after the heavier rains had ended.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindNoonday-Tree down on Farm to Market Road 2868 approximately 1 mile from Highway 155.
March 2016Flash FloodNoonday-Water was over the bridge at the 14000 block of County Road 1106.
April 2016HailNoonday-A photo was posted to the KLTV Facebook page of quarter size hail that fell in Noonday.
April 2015HailNoonday-Nickel size hail reported in Noonday, Texas.
December 2015Flash FloodNoonday-Flooding was reported on Big Oak Bay , CR. 2260, CR. 223 and CR. 371. Flooding and road closures were also reported on Hwy. 10 south between BlackJack Road and Old Tyler, CR. 21, FM 16 and CR. 215.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindNoonday-Powerlines were downed along Hwy. 155 near FM 344 and FM 2661.
April 2011HailNoonday-Golfball sized hail was reported in the community of Emerald Bay on Lake Palestine.
June 2010Flash FloodNoonday-Water was 3 foot deep running across the junction of FM. 344 and FM. 155.
June 2010Heavy RainNoonday-A 24 hour rainfall total of 9.59 inches was reported 8 miles northwest of Bullard, Texas.
February 2009HailNoonday-Hail reported in Emerald Bay on Lake Palestine.
October 2009Flash FloodNoonday-Heavy rainfall led to the closure of FM2868.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindNoonday-Trees were blown down by high winds.
February 1993Thunderstorm WindNoonday-Wind gusts to 60 mph were reported.
May 2017HailNoonday-no account filed
April 2012HailNoonday-no account filed
April 2012HailNoonday-no account filed
October 2010HailNoonday-no account filed
May 2006HailNoonday-no account filed
November 2005HailNoonday-no account filed
January 1998HailNoonday-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Smith 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
Lee Spring2.4 miles14
Galilee2.4 miles16
Gresham3.0 miles14
Flint3.8 miles14
Pine Trail Estates4.0 miles16
Teaselville6.1 miles16
Dogwood City6.1 miles16
New Hope6.6 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 NoondayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981285The 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 1378760. 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.