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Tennyson, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Bronte census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76953. It lies near Mount Margaret. The Survey maps it on the Tennyson quadrangle. It stands 1,883 feet above sea level.

Tennyson within Coke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Tennyson between 2006 and 2017, burning about 2,074 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
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
30 September 2011Natural20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSAYNER LANE FIRE
10 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 June 2017Natural90 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOVERTY CANYON
18 June 2008Natural800 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJUNIPER PEAK
7 April 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTENNYSON
25 April 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDCAT FIRE
15 March 2006Equipment and vehicle use1,120 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTEMPLIN
23 February 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE,HWY 277

Every fire recorded in Coke County

Storms near this place

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tennyson in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 12 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 1997HailTennyson$100,000no account filed
April 2025HailTennyson-Public reported quarter size hail.
April 2025HailTennyson-Public reported golf ball size on social media, 2 miles east-northeast of Tennyson.
May 2024HailTennyson-A trained spotter reported two inch size hail south of Robert Lee.
May 2024HailTennyson-A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail.
May 2024HailTennyson-Public reported on social media ping pong ball size hail.
May 2024HailTennyson-Trained spotter reported golf ball size hail.
June 2020HailTennyson-The Coke County Sheriffs office reported ping pong sized hail.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindTennyson-The public estimated a wind gust to 60 mph 5 miles northwest of Tennyson.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Tennyson-This is a continuation of the tornado that developed in northern Tom Green county. The tornado dissipated near the community of Tennyson and remained in open country with only damage to trees.
May 2002HailTennyson-Skywarn spotters reported tennis ball size hail near Tennyson.
March 2023HailTennyson-no account filed
April 2015HailTennyson-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindTennyson-no account filed
June 1999HailTennyson-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindTennyson-no account filed
March 1997Tornado (F0)Tennyson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coke 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
Shawville7.5 miles15
Pecan Mott8.9 miles15
Bronte10.0 miles15
Robert Lee14.8 miles14
Fort Chadbourne17.9 miles13
Edith20.5 miles8
Sanco22.3 miles9
Silver30.9 miles10

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 TennysonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4116355The 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 1348370. 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.