Tell, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Childress census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79259. The Survey maps it on the Tell North quadrangle. It stands 1,903 feet above sea level.

Tell within Childress County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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
1967 USGS Tell North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Childress quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Tell between 2006 and 2016, burning about 36 acres in total. 3 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	3
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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 September 2011	Natural	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TELL CORD CC
3 August 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 July 2016	Natural	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
16 April 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 January 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	TELL 658 & 1282
3 January 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Carey

Every fire recorded in Childress County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tell in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 18 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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 2001	Hail	Tell	$100,000	Wind-driven baseball size hail damaged buildings and automobiles.
April 2004	Hail	Tell	$75,000	Large, wind-driven hail damaged windshields and destroyed acres of wheat.
May 1994	Tornado (F1)	Tell	$50,000	no account filed
December 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Tell	$2,000	A NWS CO-OP observer reported moderate damage to a carport three miles south of Tell.\|A few sheds nearby had sheet metal torn from their roofs.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Tell	$2,000	Strong wind blew down power lines.
April 2021	Hail	Tell	-	A NWS cooperative weather observer reported quarter size hail three miles south of Tell. No damage was reported.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Tell	-	Observer reported that strong straight line winds destroyed their carport, blew the doors off of a barn, and broke off several large tree limbs on their property.
June 2018	Flash Flood	Tell	-	An NWS cooperative weather observer reported extensive flooding on his property with water threatening to enter his residence. The cooperative weather observer recorded 4.48 inches of rainfall with radar estimates between four and five inches. Radar rainfall estimates were between five and six inches only a few miles east of the observer's location.
June 2018	Hail	Tell	-	An NWS cooperative weather observer reported hail covering the ground between quarter size to ping pong ball size. No damage was reported.
June 2017	Hail	Tell	-	The hail caused minor damage to area crops.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Tell	-	A few tree limbs were downed.
May 2016	Hail	Tell	-	An NWS cooperative weather observer reported ping pong ball size hail. No damage was reported.
May 2016	Flash Flood	Tell	-	A nearly stationary storm over Hall and western Childress Counties produced copious amounts of rainfall which lead to flash flooding especially along US Highway 287 in Childress County.
May 2016	Hail	Tell	-	A trained spotter reported nickel size hail. No damage was noted.
May 2013	Hail	Tell	-	The public estimated hail as large as baseballs in Tell. Instances of damage to property or crops were unknown.
May 2013	Hail	Tell	-	A local COOP observer reported quarter size hail south of Tell.
May 2012	Hail	Tell	-	An NWS employee estimated nickel size hail 6SW Childress falling from a supercell in northwest Cottle County. No damage occurred.
March 2012	Hail	Tell	-	Law enforcement estimated quarter size hail in Tell. No damage was reported.
November 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Tell	-	An NWS cooperative weather observer reported two small trees downed two miles east of Tell.
May 2011	Hail	Tell	-	A NWS co-op observer reported numerous nickel sized hail stones mixed with a few golf ball sized hail stones. No damage was reported.
September 2010	Hail	Tell	-	The public reported quarter size hail near Tell.
September 2010	Heavy Rain	Tell	-	A local emergency manager reported that heavy rain caused water to fill bar ditches along Farm to Market Roads 94 and 658 near Tell. Ponding water rose out of the bar ditches and covered portions of those roadways during the storm, but receded before 17:30 CST.
June 2008	Hail	Tell	-	A National Weather Service cooperative observer reported nickel size hail just south of Tell.
April 2004	Tornado (F0)	Tell	-	Storm chasers reported a brief tornado over open country. No damage resulted from the tornado.
May 2001	Hail	Tell	-	Law enforcement officials reported golfball size hail.
June 1995	Hail	Tell	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Tell	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Tell	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Childress 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
Carey	7.5 miles	8
Childress	10.7 miles	8
Abington	15.3 miles	8
Kirkland	17.7 miles	8
Smithdale	18.4 miles	8
Loco	26.8 miles	8
Arlie	28.6 miles	8

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 Tell	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7697360	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 1369695. 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.