BlockOvalo, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Jim Ned census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79541. It lies near High Lonesome Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Tuscola quadrangle. It stands 2,021 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1890 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Tuscola quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
106 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Ovalo between 2005 and 2020, burning about 689 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 44 |
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIRE - BROWN & 1ST STREET |
| 22 September 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIRE - CR 176 |
| 2 September 2017 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VIRGIL GRAHAM'S BARN |
| 14 September 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIRE - FM 604 |
| 4 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 August 2006 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 43 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ovalo in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 8 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 2005 | Hail | Ovalo | $25,000 | Hail maxed out in Ovalo around golf ball size and the hail covered the ground. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Ovalo | - | A trained spotter reported a little larger then baseball size hail 8 miles northeast of Happy Valley. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Ovalo | - | The public reported golf ball size hail 2 miles south southwest of Happy Valley. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Ovalo | - | Quarter size hail was reported in Happy Valley. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Ovalo | - | Hail started to fall in Ovalo. The hail lasted for several minutes and produced considerable damage. The damage estimate will be shown at the time the maximum hail size occurred. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Ovalo | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Ovalo | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Ovalo | - | 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 Ovalo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7113229 | 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 1343362. 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.