Notrees, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the West Odessa-Goldsmith census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79759. The Survey maps it on the Notrees quadrangle. It stands 3,333 feet above sea level.

Notrees within Ector County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Pecos quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Pecos quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Notrees quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Odessa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Notrees between 2007 and 2020, burning about 6,639 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	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
10 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WHEELER #1
11 June 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAPROCK #2
29 May 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	199 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HELL BOUND
27 May 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GOLDSMITH ASSIST
25 May 2008	Natural	400 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 March 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	6,000 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	VEST RANCH
20 March 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	EAST 302

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ector County

Storms near this place

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Notrees in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 9 hail, 3 tornado, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2010	Tornado (EF3)	Notrees	$100,000	At 12:15 pm CST, members of the TWISTEX research group confirmed the formation of a tornado approximately 6.5 miles south of Notrees. This tornado progressed northeastward around 20 mph, first causing damage to power poles around from 12:16 to 12:17 pm CST. As it continued to track to the northeast, the tornado caused significant damage to oil equipment from 12:19 to 12:22 pm CST. Two type 320 pump jacks, each weighing 71,000 pounds including the concrete base, were blown over. The tornado then began to weaken at 12:27 pm CST, and dissipated at 12:28 pm CST approximately 2 miles southeast of Notrees, TX.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Notrees	$40,000	Photos were shared of a collapsed radio tower near Notrees. Time is estimated from radar. Wind speeds were estimated to have been 110-120 MPH. Property damage cost is an estimation.
September 2016	Tornado (EF1)	Notrees	$30,000	A supercell thunderstorm developed over Andrews County during the evening hours of September 17th. This storm encountered a stationary boundary and began moving southeast. The storm began to form a hook echo at 6:30 pm CDT as it moved toward Highway 115 in southwest Andrews County. Eyewitness reports from storm chasers and spotters in the area indicate that the initial tornado began at 7:13 pm CDT near the intersection of Andrews, Winkler and Ector Counties. Videos taken of the tornado show it touching down and lifting several times before eventually staying on the ground for several minutes over far northwest portions of Ector County. The tornado moved south southeastward across open fields of rural Ector County just west of FM 181. The damage assessment team looked at several different indicators to determine tornado intensity. The tornado snapped several electrical power poles and overturned a tank battery along its path. These damage indicators suggest EF1 intensity with wind speeds estimated at 90 to 105 mph. Near the end of the life cycle of the EF1 tornado, a weak anticyclonic circulation developed on the forward flank of the supercell around 7:25 pm CDT. This circulation moved southwest to the west of FM 181 and dissipated around 7:35 pm CDT. Storm chasers and spotters identified this funnel looking north from Goldsmith around 7:30 pm CDT. There was no evidence of damage or reports of the funnel cloud touching down. The tornado path width was estimated and the cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
June 2025	Flash Flood	Notrees	-	A report was received from the public via mPING of street flooding just west of Notrees. The time of occurrence is estimated from radar. No reports of damage were received.
May 2023	Hail	Notrees	-	Size estimated from public photo relayed by broadcast media. Time estimated from radar.
June 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Notrees	-	A tornado 3/4 of a mile wide was reported near the Ector/Winkler County line along highway 302. The tornado lasted for approximately one minute.
May 2007	Hail	Notrees	-	Golfball to baseball sized hail fell on Texas Highway 302 near the Winkler and Ector County lines.
June 2021	Hail	Notrees	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Notrees	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Notrees	-	no account filed
March 2004	Hail	Notrees	-	no account filed
October 2003	Hail	Notrees	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Notrees	-	no account filed
October 2000	Hail	Notrees	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ector 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Turnbaugh Corner	5.8 miles	8
Goldsmith	8.6 miles	9
North Cowden	14.2 miles	6
West Odessa	14.6 miles	10
Badger	15.0 miles	8
Penwell	15.0 miles	8
Judkins	15.2 miles	8
Metz	15.7 miles	8

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 Notrees	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7063522	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 1342897. 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.