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Quail, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Wellington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79251. The Survey maps it on the Quail quadrangle. 17 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,234 feet above sea level.

Quail within Collingsworth County

Population over time

2 figures

Quail fell from 19 to 17 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201019
202017-2 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

20 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Quail between 2006 and 2018, burning about 796 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1

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
10 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTATE ROW
7 August 2006Natural120 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE NEAR QUAIL
31 July 2006Natural40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2006Natural100 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 July 2008Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWELLINGTON FD MUTUAL AID

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collingsworth County

Storms near this place

42 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quail in 42 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 33 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008HailQuail$90,000Hailstones reported to be as large as baseballs broke out windows in several homes and caused damage to tractors and vehicles.
March 2026HailQuail$5,000no account filed
March 2017HailQuail-Quarter size hail reported.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindQuail-A KVII Schoolnet site located 4 miles south of Quail at Buck Creek Ranch measured a wind gust of 64 mph.
May 2015Tornado (EF1)Quail-This tornado developed just east of where the first tornado lifted in Donley County and then continued into Collingsworth County. Much of the middle section of the track occurred across extremely rural sections of Collingsworth County near the Salt Fork Red River and was inaccessible to the survey team. However, radar evidence suggested a continuous path. Most damage was EF-0 along the path, however isolated EF1 damage occurred in two locations based on snapped power poles and tree trunks in two locations.
May 2015HailQuail-Nickel size hail was reported one mile east of Quail.
April 2014HailQuail-A cluster of thunderstorms developed over Collingsworth County shortly after 3:00 PM CST. These storms quickly strengthen, and local broadcast media reported penny size (0.75 inch) hail east of Quail (Collingsworth County). The storm which produced this hail continued to move eastward across Collingsworth County.
April 2014HailQuail-A cluster of thunderstorms developed over Collingsworth County shortly after 3:00 PM. These storms quickly strengthen, and a local broadcast media reported ping pong ball size hail (1.50 inches). The hail was able to cover the ground three inches deep. The storm which produced this hail continued to move eastward across Collingsworth County.
May 2013HailQuail-As a thunderstorm moved to the northeast across the southeastern Texas Panhandle, 7 miles north of the city of Quail (Collingsworth County) it produced hail up to the size of half dollar.
February 2013HailQuail-Storm chasers 6 miles west-northwest of Quail (Collingsworth County) reported quarter size hail.
May 2013HailQuail-A trained storm spotter observed a decaying thunderstorm producing nickel size hail seven miles east of Hedley (Donley County).
May 2013HailQuail-A trained storm spotter observed a thunderstorm seven miles north of Quail (Collingsworth County) producing half dollar size hail.
May 2008HailQuail-Hail was reported to be covering the ground.
October 2005HailQuail-Cotton fields were open and ready to be harvested...however the cotton was beaten out of the bolls by the small hail. Unopened bolls were bruised from the small hail and will never open. On some of the peanut crops...the peanuts were already partially dug and laying on top of the ground waiting to be thrashed. The small hail caused the peanuts to fall from the vines making them impossible to harvest.
June 1997Tornado (F0)Quail-Tornado remained over open country and track was estimated.
June 1997Flash FloodQuail-CR 1547 closed due to 3 to 4 inch rainfall.
July 1995HailQuail-Thunderstorms did about $200K damage from large hail in northeast Amarillo and Claude. The two tornadoes in Armstrong county were very photogenic but no damage occurred with these tornadoes.
May 2023HailQuail-no account filed
May 2017HailQuail-no account filed
May 2017HailQuail-no account filed
April 2012HailQuail-no account filed
September 2012HailQuail-no account filed
May 2009HailQuail-no account filed
June 2008HailQuail-no account filed
June 2008HailQuail-no account filed
May 2008HailQuail-no account filed
May 2006HailQuail-no account filed
July 2006HailQuail-no account filed
September 2005HailQuail-no account filed
August 2004HailQuail-no account filed
May 2003HailQuail-no account filed
May 2003HailQuail-no account filed
May 2002HailQuail-no account filed
February 2000HailQuail-no account filed
February 2000Thunderstorm WindQuail-no account filed
February 2000HailQuail-no account filed
February 2000Thunderstorm WindQuail-no account filed
October 2000Thunderstorm WindQuail-no account filed
May 1999HailQuail-no account filed
June 1997HailQuail-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindQuail-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindQuail-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Collingsworth 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
Marilla4.8 miles7
Swearingen8.3 miles7
Rolla8.6 miles7
Wellington10.5 miles8
Samnorwood11.6 miles5
Lutie12.2 miles5
Dozier12.2 miles5
New Loco15.1 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 QuailAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q976619The 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 1365880. 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.