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Posey, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Slaton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79364. The Survey maps it on the Slaton quadrangle. It stands 3,146 feet above sea level.

Posey within Lubbock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

112 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Posey between 2006 and 2015, burning about 344 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined49
Smoking29
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 272 & FM 831
3 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
21 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
20 August 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSMALL GRASS FIRE
9 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 July 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service835 GRASSFIRE
19 July 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lubbock County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Posey: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Acuff PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
H L Stafford Const Co PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lubbock County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Posey in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013Thunderstorm WindPosey$1,000,000An official NWS storm damage survey confirmed significant wind driven damage from near Buffalo Springs Lake and Ransom Canyon down into Slaton. Several trees and power lines and poles were downed, along with rail cars being piled on top of one another in Slaton. The Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet site northeast of Slaton measured an 82 mph gust as the line of storms passed through, while the NWS storm survey estimated wind gusts of near 90 mph associated with some of the damage.
May 2002HailPosey$10,000no account filed
June 2019HailPosey-A trained spotter reported ping pong ball size hail at Buffalo Springs Lake. This hail was from one of several severe thunderstorms that developed off of the outflow of the initial thunderstorm in southwestern Lubbock County.
October 2010HailPosey-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported north of Slaton along Farm to Market Road 400. Post-storm surveys indicated that 5,000 acres of cotton were damaged.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindPosey-A 64 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured by a KCBD storm chaser.
May 2025HailPosey-no account filed
June 1996Tornado (F0)Posey-no account filed
June 1996HailPosey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lubbock 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Buffalo Springs Lake3.4 miles8
Ransom Canyon3.9 miles8
Burris4.7 miles11
Slaton4.7 miles8
Union5.8 miles10
Roosevelt7.1 miles8
Woodrow7.5 miles10
Canyon7.7 miles8

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 PoseyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7233035The 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 1365617. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.