BlockPettit, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Levelland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79336. The Survey maps it on the Pettit quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Pettit quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Levelland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Pettit between 2006 and 2009, burning about 4,271 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 May 2006 | Natural | 450 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 March 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3,500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2009-23 |
| 30 March 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COBB FIRE |
| 4 January 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pettit in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 8 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Hail | Pettit | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pettit | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pettit | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees and power lines. |
| June 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Pettit | - | An intense cyclic supercell thunderstorm produced a total of eight known tornadoes over portions of Cochran, Hockley, and Lubbock Counties. This was the fourth of the tornadoes. A brief cone-type tornado was observed by broadcast media approximately 1.5 miles north of Petit. No damage was observed or reported. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Pettit | - | An intense and long-lived supercell thunderstorm slowly tracked to the east across portions of Hockley, Lamb, Hale, Lubbock, and Crosby Counties. In addition to producing very large hail and numerous tornadoes, it also created very heavy rainfall which led to flash flooding across a large area of the South Plains. Several reports were received from storm chasers across Hockley, Lamb, and Hale Counties of water over many roadways. Numerous reports from Lubbock County and area web cams showed water flowing over city streets as deep as three feet in some areas. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Pettit | - | Numerous storm chasers reported a long lived swath of giant hail from approximately eight miles south of Pep through three miles south of Smyer. Near the beginning of this swath of hail along Farm to Market 303 near Petit, a storm chaser relayed a video of hail that measured five inches in diameter. Hail ranging in size from two to three inches in diameter substantially affected the city of Levelland causing extensive damage. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Pettit | - | A cyclic tornadic supercell produced several tornadoes over a period of approximately two hours. An NWS storm survey revealed that this supercell produced nine separate tornadoes. This tornado was the eighth tornado. No damage was observed or reported with this short lived, small tornado. The instantaneous center of the tornado was estimated from TTU-Kal radar data. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Pettit | - | A cyclic tornadic supercell produced several tornadoes over a period of approximately two hours. An NWS storm survey revealed that this supercell produced nine separate tornadoes. This tornado was the seventh tornado. No damage was observed or reported from this short lived, small tornado. The instantaneous center of the tornado was estimated from TTU-Kal radar data. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Pettit | - | Local agricultural officials reported that a severe thunderstorm produced a swath of hail that ranged from the size of pennies to quarters from just north of Pettit to south of that town. The hail stripped cotton crops and shredded maize fields along Farm to Market Road 303. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pettit | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Pettit | - | The public reported golfball size hail. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Pettit | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Pettit | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Pettit | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Pettit | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coble | 7.1 miles | 7 | |
| Pep | 8.4 miles | 7 | |
| Oklahoma Flat | 9.0 miles | 8 | |
| Whitharral | 10.8 miles | 7 | |
| Levelland | 10.9 miles | 7 | |
| Opdyke West | 13.8 miles | 8 | |
| Opdyke | 15.0 miles | 8 | |
| Sundown | 16.7 miles | 7 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1365118. 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.