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Sudan, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sudan-Amherst census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79371. The Survey maps it on the Sudan quadrangle. 940 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,753 feet above sea level.

Sudan within Lamb County

Population over time

2 figures

Sudan fell from 958 to 940 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
2010958
2020940-18 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

66 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Sudan between 2010 and 2019, burning about 11,388 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 5 were 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
Natural27
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
20 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS 2013-12
20 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS 2013-11
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS 21
6 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS 2011-40
15 August 2014Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS14-19
11 August 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS 2011-42
11 August 2011Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS 2011-41
11 August 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS 2011-44

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamb County

Storms near this place

34 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sudan in 34 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 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 2017HailSudan$10,000,000An intense, slow-moving supercell tracked slowly southeast along and near U.S. Highway 84 causing significant damage along its 28-mile path, particularly in Amherst and Littlefield. Wind driven hail as large as softballs devastated home siding, shattered windows, punctured roofs in homes, and severely damaged vehicles. An estimated 1500 homes and buildings in Amherst and Littlefield sustained moderate to severe hail damage, with many rural homes and outbuildings also affected. Financially, the greatest losses were dealt to approximately 50,000 acres of corn, cotton and sorghum. Those crops that avoided the worst hail succumbed to torrential rains, flooding and wash outs. Total crop losses are estimated at approximately $20 million. Many farmers were determined to replant with 90-day corn or sorghum.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSudan$125,000A National Weather Service post-storm survey revealed that damaging thunderstorm winds destroyed a center-pivot irrigation system just south of U.S. Highway 70 north of Sudan. The event time is estimated based on Doppler radar data.
April 2004Flash FloodSudan$30,000Several vehicles were stranded in high water in and around town. Some roads were briefly closed due to the flooding.
April 2004Flash FloodSudan$30,000Locally heavy rainfall in Sudan flooded several streets in and around town. Highway 84 was closed due to flooding. Several cars were stranded in the flood water.
April 2001HailSudan$25,000Golfball size hail was reported by law enforcement officials.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindSudan$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind snapped power poles.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindSudan$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew down power lines.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindSudan$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed a railroad crossing arm and shattered the windows out of a car.
May 2025Flash FloodSudan-Widespread rain showers and thunderstorms developed over the South Plains region early in the morning of the sixth ahead of an upper level storm system. Moderate to heavy rain persisted for approximately two hours causing flooding of area roadways in and around Sudan reported by a storm chaser. A portion of Farm to Market Road 303 was inundated with water north of Sudan.
May 2023HailSudan-A storm chaser reported quarter size hail south of Sudan.
May 2021Tornado (EFU)Sudan-Numerous storm chasers photographed a brief tornado in an open field about seven miles south of Earth. No known damaged occurred so a rating of EF-unknown was assigned to this tornado.
May 2021HailSudan-A photograph on social media showed hail up to two inches in diameter in Sudan. No damage was reported.
May 2021HailSudan-A storm chaser reported quarter size hail northwest of Sudan.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindSudan-Measured by a Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet.
May 2017Tornado (EFU)Sudan-A very narrow tornado was observed for a few seconds over a field.
May 2017HailSudan-No damage was reported.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSudan-The public estimated severe thunderstorm wind gusts in excess of 60 mph in Sudan. No damage was reported.
April 2007HailSudan-Many reports of large hail were received as a supercell thunderstorm evolved from a complex of high-based convection over Lamb County during the early evening of the 21st. Quarter size hail was initially reported at 17:20 CST in Sudan, and then in nearby Amherst by 17:25 CST. The reported hail sizes increased as the storm continued to intensify and track northeastward. By 18:01 CST golf ball size hail was reported in Olton. Young cotton crops in the affected area sustained minor damage. This storm ultimately produced a family of significant tornadoes.
May 2007HailSudan-Storm spotters reported large hail up to the size of ping-pong balls along a swath from Sudan to U.S. Highway 70 just east of Springlake.
June 2004HailSudan-Nickel sized hail damaged cotton crop.
May 2001HailSudan-Amateur radio storm spotters reported golfball size hail. The wind-driven hail devastated crops.
May 2001HailSudan-The wind-driven hail devastated crops.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindSudan-An amateur radio storm spotter measured 70 mph wind gusts.
June 2000Flash FloodSudan-Highway 84 was flooded and closed.
January 2005HailSudan-no account filed
May 2005HailSudan-no account filed
July 2004HailSudan-no account filed
May 2003HailSudan-no account filed
October 2002HailSudan-no account filed
May 1996HailSudan-no account filed
June 1996HailSudan-no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodSudan-no account filed
May 1995HailSudan-no account filed
April 1995HailSudan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lamb 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
Friendship6.1 miles7
Amherst7.0 miles9
Beck7.7 miles7
Cofferville11.2 miles9
Earth12.9 miles9
Littlefield14.8 miles8
Pleasant Valley16.0 miles8
Fieldton16.1 miles9

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 SudanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q671273The 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 1369309. 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.