BlockO'Donnell, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the O'Donnell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79351. The Survey maps it on the O'Donnell quadrangle. 704 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,045 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresO'Donnell fell from 831 to 704 between 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 831 | |
| 2020 | 704 | -127 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS O'Donnell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Lamesa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of O'Donnell between 2006 and 2013, burning about 518 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE 10 MILES S. ON US 87 |
| 4 March 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 30 March 2006 | Smoking | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 February 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CRP GRASS FIRE |
| 11 February 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 11 February 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BAR DITCH FIRE |
| 5 January 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
4 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names O'Donnell in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 4 hail. 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 1993 | Hail | O'Donnell | $5,000 | A cluster of severe thunderstorms persisted over southern Lynn County for nearly 40 minutes. SKYWARN spotters and the Lynn County Sheriff's Office reported golf ball-size hail near the Wells Community, in O'Donnell, and west of O'Donnell. The hail accumulated in drifts several inches deep near Wells and resulted in minor roof, vehicle, and crop damage in the area. |
| May 1993 | Hail | O'Donnell | $5,000 | A cluster of severe thunderstorms persisted over southern Lynn County for nearly 40 minutes. SKYWARN spotters and the Lynn County Sheriff's Office reported golf ball-size hail near the Wells Community, in O'Donnell, and west of O'Donnell. The hail accumulated in drifts several inches deep near Wells and resulted in minor roof, vehicle, and crop damage in the area. |
| May 1993 | Hail | O'Donnell | $500 | A cluster of severe thunderstorms persisted over southern Lynn County for nearly 40 minutes. SKYWARN spotters and the Lynn County Sheriff's Office reported golf ball-size hail near the Wells Community, in O'Donnell, and west of O'Donnell. The hail accumulated in drifts several inches deep near Wells and resulted in minor roof, vehicle, and crop damage in the area. |
| June 1995 | Hail | O'Donnell | - | 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.
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 O'Donnell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972248 | 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 1342934. 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.