Stanton, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Stanton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79782. The Survey maps it on the Stanton quadrangle. 2,657 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,664 feet above sea level.
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On record in Stanton
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Carmelite Monasterylisted 1999
Population over time
2 figuresStanton grew from 2,492 to 2,657 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,492 | |
| 2020 | 2,657 | +165 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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 Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Stanton quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Stanton between 2008 and 2014, burning about 878 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MM 163-164 I-20 |
| 24 August 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 June 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 March 2008 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 February 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 February 2008 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 February 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 652 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COTTON FIELD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 77 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stanton in 77 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 49 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $75,000 | Multiple reports of 70 mph thunderstorm winds. Damage reported in Stanton included large trees uprooted, roofs lost on three structures, and a large barn was damaged. |
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | Stanton | $20,000 | Heavy rain fell across Martin County and produced flash flooding in Stanton. There were four stalled cars. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate. |
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | Stanton | $10,000 | Heavy rain moved across Martin County and produced flash flooding near Stanton. There was water up to the steering wheel on a mini van on the service road at mile marker 158 on I-20. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Stanton | $10,000 | A thunderstorm moved across Martin County and produced tennis ball sized hail in Stanton. The only damage that was reported during a damage survey was a few dents on the hood of some cars. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $10,000 | Law enforcement officials reported power lines blown down by damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $10,000 | High winds knocked down power poles in Stanton |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $7,000 | A thunderstorm moved across Martin County and produced wind damage in Stanton. There was a roof partially blown off of a home in Stanton. A large tree was also blown down. The time of damage was estimated from radar. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $5,000 | A thunderstorm moved across Martin County and produced wind damage in Stanton. There were broken tree limbs and damaged car ports in Stanton. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Stanton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Stanton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $4,000 | A thunderstorm moved across Martin County and produced an estimated 60 mph wind gust in Stanton. In southwest Stanton, playground equipment was turned over and a roof was removed from part of a house. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $2,500 | Utility poles were knocked down by microburst winds from a small single cell storm that was in a broken line of storms moving to the east. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Stanton | $500 | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Stanton | $500 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Stanton | - | Golf ball-size hail was reported in Stanton by the public. The time of occurrence was estimated by both the report and by radar. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Stanton | - | A report was received from the public of half dollar-size hail in Stanton. The time of occurrence is estimated from radar. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Stanton | - | Multiple pictures were received from social media of tennis ball-size hail in Stanton. The time of occurrence is estimated by radar. |
| March 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | A thunderstorm moved across Martin County and produced a 60 mph wind gust one mile west of Stanton. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | A thunderstorm moved across Martin County and produced a 60 mph wind gust six miles north of Stanton. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | A thunderstorm moved across Martin County and produced an estimated 60 mph wind gust in Merrick lasting five to ten minutes. |
| July 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Stanton | - | A thunderstorm moved across Martin County and produced a brief tropical funnel near Stanton. No damage was reported. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Stanton | - | Penny to nickel size hail was covering Interstate 20 northeast of Stanton. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Stanton | - | The storm that produced large hail over Greenwood moved northeast into Martin County. Motorists traveling along Interstate 20 reported golfball size hail just outside of Stanton. |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Stanton | - | A trained storm spotter reported flood waters in excess of a foot deep flowing over Interstate 20 on the Martin/Midland County line. |
| May 2003 | Flash Flood | Stanton | - | A spotter reported very heavy rainfall resulting in flash flooding on most city streets in Stanton. |
| October 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | The S.O. dispatcher estimated wind gusts from a severe thunderstorm reached 60 MPH at her residence north of Stanton. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Stanton | - | This cluster of storms moved to the northeast along I-20. On a day with well over 100 non-severe storms, these were the most intense. The most organized cell was the Stanton storm having sustained overhang for almost 30 minutes. The overhang was on the leading (east) side of this cell. Also during the height of the storm at Midland International Airport the temperature dipped to within one degree of the record low for the day. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Stanton | - | This storm developed on the same boundary as Andrews County storm. About the time of this report the storm briefly exhibited characteristics of a Classic Supercell, but the storm sent out an outflow boundary to the south that blocked its inflow. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Stanton | - | This storm formed along the outflow boundary of the Lenorah storm. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Stanton | - | Golfball size hail fell along the Midland/Martin County line on State Highway 349. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Stanton | - | This storm formed of the southern flank of the storm that passed over north Midland. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Stanton | - | The storms in Dawson and Gaines Counties weakened as they moved southward, then sent out an outflow boundary that served as the focus for new development in Martin County. The character of these storms was much different as a cluster of very small cells formed versus the well-organized single cell to the north. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | A line of thunderstorms moving east out of New Mexico formed a bow echo. A truck was jackknifed 11 miles north of Lamesa by the strong winds. Four utility poles were snapped north of Lamesa. A local radio station in Lamesa recorded 68 mph winds. Many trees in Lamesa were downed, some onto cars and houses, according to the sheriff's office. As the line of storms started to turn southeast, 60 mph winds were reported by the public in Three Leagues. In Stanton, wind gusts up to 85 mph were reported. |
| October 1993 | Hail | Stanton | - | Morning severe weather hit the Permian Basin. Quarter-size hail was reported by the National Weather Service office at Midland International Airport 1003 CST. A NWS co-operative observer in Stanton reported dime-size hail at 1045 CST. The public reported dime-size hail in Big Spring at 1130 CST and 4 miles north of Stanton at 1222 CST. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Stanton | - | 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.
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 Stanton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q973116 | 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 1347803. 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.



