Ogg, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Canyon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79042. The Survey maps it on the Ogg quadrangle. It stands 3,668 feet above sea level.

Ogg within Randall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 Plainview quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Canyon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1984 USGS Ogg quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Tulia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

58 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Ogg between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,608 acres in total. 8 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	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
30 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	I 27 AND WAYSIDE HWY
3 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STEVE IRLBECK GRASS FIRE
28 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CRP GRASS FIRE
7 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	14-635
7 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE AT I 27 & MM 95
24 August 2011	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	IRLBECK FIRE
23 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	18680
21 August 2007	Natural	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Randall County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ogg in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2007: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
October 2007	Tornado (EF1)	Ogg	$90,000	The tornado touched down in a field south of W Dowlen Road and east of S Hope Road approximately ten miles east southeast of Buffalo Lake or about thirteen miles south of Canyon at 2316 CST. The tornado continued moving northeast for twelve miles to just south of E Cemetery Road where it lifted at 2335 CST. Damage was first noted along W Dowlen Road...west of Running Water Road. The damage path continued northeast across Running Water Road...U.S. Highway 87 and then to near the intersection of W Hungate Road and Interstate 27. Substantial damage was noted to barns...power poles...fencing and a trailer. The tornado then continued moving northeast across another field and intensified near Tradewind Street...roughly two miles south of West County Road 283. Considerable damage to property was found including a large metal container...metal roofing...numerous trees...three double support transmission line poles...three barns...and minor damage to a homestead. The tornado also lifted and displaced a heavy metal vat full of metal tools and equipment. The tornado also moved two large diesel tanks that sat atop support pedestals behind two of the barns...one of which was completely full.
August 2007	Hail	Ogg	-	Reported at the Ceta Canyon Church Camp.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogg	-	Reported ten miles east southeast of Buffalo Lake.
August 2007	Hail	Ogg	-	no account filed
October 1998	Hail	Ogg	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Ogg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randall 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
Cleta	6.5 miles	9
Canyon	10.1 miles	9
Umbarger	14.1 miles	10
Rockwell Place	14.4 miles	8
Timbercreek Canyon	15.5 miles	8
Palisades	16.3 miles	8
Lake Tanglewood	16.9 miles	8
Zita	20.5 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 Ogg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22074771	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 1380288. 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.