BlockSummerfield, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dimmitt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79045. The Survey maps it on the Summerfield quadrangle. 34 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,940 feet above sea level.
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 Clovis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hereford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Summerfield between 2006 and 2014, burning about 209 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BUMPER |
| 5 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CAVINESS |
| 21 May 2006 | Natural | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2011 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SUMMERFIELD |
| 13 April 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SCHLABS |
| 10 April 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CATTLE TOWN |
| 17 March 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CAVINES |
| 1 March 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summerfield in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 17 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summerfield | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of a large metal barn at a rural residence east of Summerfield. |
| May 2023 | Flash Flood | Summerfield | - | Numerous thunderstorms trained over the same area in northern Castro County early in the morning of the 27th. In addition to the training, intense rain rates led to flash flooding and many road closures. An estimated seven to nine inches of rain fell over a period of only a few hours. Farm to Market Road 1057 from Summerfield south to Farm to Market Road 2397 was closed due to flooding. Water was also covering several other roads in northern Castro County making them impassable. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Summerfield | - | Local broadcast media relayed a report of hail up to two inches in diameter along US Highway 385 in far northern Castro County. No damage was reported. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Summerfield | - | No damage was observed. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Summerfield | - | Damage was not known. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Summerfield | - | Several reports were received of hail up to golf ball size in Summerfield through five miles east of Summerfield. |
| June 2019 | Tornado (EFU) | Summerfield | - | The NSSL-TORUS experiment reported a brief tornado approximately three miles south of Summerfield. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Summerfield | - | Damage, if any, was not known. |
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Summerfield | - | Large sections of Farm-to-Market Road 1057 were flowing with one to two feet of mud and water as documented by a video stringer with KVII-TV. |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Summerfield | - | Very heavy rainfall trained over a large area from northwest of Dimmitt to northeast of Dimmitt. Farm to Market Road 2397 between Farm to Market Road 1055 and US Highway 385 was closed due to high water. A storm survey the next day revealed water was still running over the roadway at some spots. Farm to Market Road 2397 east of US Highway 385 continued to be flooded the next day as well. A pivot irrigation site near the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 2397 and 1055 recorded 4.88 inches of rainfall. |
| August 2012 | Flood | Summerfield | - | Torrential rains in excess of four inches fell over the course of one hour in and around the community of Flagg causing extensive flooding of fields and roads. Swift-flowing water was reported to be nearly three feet deep about 3/4 of a mile north of Flagg over FM 1055. An NWS storm survey the following morning noted water was still about 1.5 feet deep over the road. Combined with wind-driven hail, the floodwaters seriously damaged or destroyed many area crops. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Summerfield | - | The public reported golf ball size hail in Summerfield. No damage was reported. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Summerfield | - | A storm chaser reported that pea size hail was accompanied by a few stones up to the size of pennies just south of Summerfield. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summerfield | - | Numerous reports of severe thunderstorm wind gusts were received as a linear convective complex moved southeastward over Castro County. A National Weather Service cooperative observer initially estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph in Summerfield at 18:25 CST. By 18:55 CST the public reported similar wind estimates in Nazareth. The Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet site near Hart recorded gusts of 61 mph and 60 mph at 19:00 CST and 19:05 CST respectively. An additional report by the public indicated that large tree limbs were blown down southeast of Hart by 19:20 CST. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Summerfield | - | A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper reported large hail up to the size of nickels on the Parmer and Castro County line just south of U.S. Highway 60 near Summerfield. |
| May 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Summerfield | - | A tornado was reported in open country by law enforcement officials just west of Farm-to-Market Road 1057 south of town. The tornado, which remained nearly stationary, was videotaped by a citizen. No NWS storm survey was conducted. |
| August 1993 | Hail | Summerfield | - | Weather spotter reported dime-size hail from an isolated thunderstorm. |
| July 2015 | Flood | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Summerfield | - | 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 Summerfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7637564 | 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 1380625. 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.