BlockOwens, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Ralls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79357. The Survey maps it on the Ralls SE quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 7 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 Lubbock quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1967 USGS Ralls SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Owens between 2006 and 2011, burning about 10 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONE GIN |
| 14 October 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 January 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Owens in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 4 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 1999 | Hail | Owens | $20,000 | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owens | $15,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind snapped eight power poles on Highway 207 north of Caprock. |
| April 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Owens | - | Law enforcement in Crosby County observed a brief tornado over an open field east of Texas State Highway 207. No damage was reported. |
| April 2025 | Flash Flood | Owens | - | An NWS storm survey revealed significant flooding south of Crosbyton along several roadways. A slow moving supercell thunderstorm produced very heavy rainfall over an extended period of time over areas of rural Crosby County. Farm to Market 40 was covered in mud in several areas east of Texas Highway 207 indicative of water over the roadway on the night of the 24th. Most of the county roads were muddy and impassable at the time of the storm survey. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Owens | - | Numerous reports were received of hail up to tennis ball size south of Ralls along Texas State Highway 207. No damage was reported. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Owens | - | A storm chaser video feed showed hail on the side of the road just after the storm had passed over Texas State Highway 207. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Owens | - | A swath of hail as large as tennis balls at times fell south of Ralls and Lorenzo. Damage was unknown. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Owens | - | A storm chaser documented a narrow tornado for three minutes over open land. No damage occurred. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Owens | - | A storm chaser videoed the previous tornado rope out and eventually merge with a new tornadic circulation. This second tornado was more organized than the first and eventually crossed Highway 207 as videoed by a truck driver. No damage was observed despite crossing directly over power lines along the highway. |
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 Owens | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q127705266 | 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 1380316. 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.