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Samnorwood, Texas

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Samnorwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79079. The Survey maps it on the Dozier quadrangle. 24 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,198 feet above sea level.

Samnorwood within Collingsworth County

Population over time

2 figures

Samnorwood fell from 51 to 24 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
201051
202024-27 (-53%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

14 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Samnorwood between 2006 and 2011, burning about 1,992 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined8
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
10 August 2008Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOZIER RIGHT OF WAY FIRE
20 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTATE ROW
13 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceU.S. ROW
8 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTARVER
4 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined450 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 March 2011Natural75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKYLE JANES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collingsworth County

Storms near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Samnorwood in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 19 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSamnorwood$15,000Tree limbs were snapped and a power pole was knocked down near Highway 83.
May 2006HailSamnorwood$15,000no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindSamnorwood$200no account filed
March 2026HailSamnorwood-Pea to quarter size hail fell in Samnorwood.
March 2026HailSamnorwood-Hail up to quarter size fell in Samnorwood.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindSamnorwood-Report of a wind gust of 60 mph 2 to 3 miles south of Samnorwood on Highway 83.
August 2013Heavy RainSamnorwood-Training thunderstorms moved over Collingsworth County during the early morning hours of the 16th. The KVII Schoolnet site in Samnorwood (Collingsworth County) reported a storm total accumulation of 3.47 inches. No swift water rescues or stranded motorist were reported in association to this heavy rain.
May 2008HailSamnorwood-The hail was reported to be quarter size to golf ball size.
May 1993HailSamnorwood-Dryline initiated thunderstorms produced hail up to tennis ball-size and three brief tornados. No damage was reported with this severe weather outbreak. Local TV stations, Skywarn spotters and County Sheriff Office's helped greatly during this event.
June 2023HailSamnorwood-no account filed
September 2012HailSamnorwood-no account filed
August 2012Thunderstorm WindSamnorwood-no account filed
May 2009Thunderstorm WindSamnorwood-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSamnorwood-no account filed
April 2006HailSamnorwood-no account filed
July 2004HailSamnorwood-no account filed
April 2002HailSamnorwood-no account filed
April 2002HailSamnorwood-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindSamnorwood-no account filed
May 1999HailSamnorwood-no account filed
May 1999HailSamnorwood-no account filed
May 1999HailSamnorwood-no account filed
June 1997HailSamnorwood-no account filed
June 1997HailSamnorwood-no account filed
July 1995HailSamnorwood-no account filed
June 1994HailSamnorwood-no account filed
April 1993HailSamnorwood-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
Lutie3.7 miles5
Dozier3.9 miles5
Aberdeen7.0 miles5
Marilla8.0 miles7
Quail11.6 miles7
Wellington14.0 miles8
Rolla17.1 miles7
Swearingen18.9 miles7

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 SamnorwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981573The 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 1367468. 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.