Sterley, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lockney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79241. The Survey maps it on the Sterley quadrangle.

Sterley within Floyd County

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.

1954 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Sterley quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Plainview quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sterley between 2006 and 2020, burning about 261 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
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
20 May 2006	Natural	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 May 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	20009
17 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sterley in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2012: 6 hail. 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
April 2012	Hail	Sterley	-	The Floydada fire department estimated golfball size hail along Highway 378 seven miles north of Lockney. No reports of damage were received.
October 2003	Hail	Sterley	-	Storm spotters affiliated with the Floydada FD reported golfball size hail just north of Providence.
May 1993	Hail	Sterley	-	The public reported quarter-size hail near the Sterley Community in northwestern Floyd County. No damage was noted.
May 1993	Hail	Sterley	-	The public reported nickel-size hail in Sterley.
August 2004	Hail	Sterley	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Sterley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lone Star	4.5 miles	7
South Plains	4.8 miles	7
Lockney	6.4 miles	7
Cereal	6.6 miles	7
Providence	7.3 miles	7
Crume Gin	7.8 miles	7
Aiken	8.3 miles	7
Johnfarris	9.9 miles	7

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.

Wikidata item Q122560387

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 1380605. 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.