Texon, Texas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Big Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76932. The Survey maps it on the Texon quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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.
- 1928 USGS Rankin quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS San Angelo quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Texon quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Big Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Texon between 2010 and 2019, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SCHNEEMANN RANCH |
| 16 December 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ASSIST BIG LAKE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Texon: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dorchester Gas | Sulfur | Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Texon in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 10 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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 2024 | Hail | Texon | - | Photo shared on Twitter/X of 3-inch hailstone measured with a ruler. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Texon | - | A thunderstorm moved over the Western Gas Plant in Reagan County and produced golfball size hail. No damage was reported. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Texon | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail was reported along Farm to Market road 1555 near the border of Upton and Reagon counties. |
| February 2005 | Hail | Texon | - | Employees at the the Benedum Gas Plant reported penny size hail on the Upton and Reagan County line. |
| October 2005 | Flash Flood | Texon | - | The Reagan County Sheriff's Office reported water running over portions of Farm to Market Road 1675 near Texon. |
| October 2005 | Flash Flood | Texon | - | A trained spotter reported one and a half feet of water on County Road 2600 running over a railroad crossing. The public also reported six to eight inches of water running over U.S. Highway 67 in Texon. |
| March 2004 | Hail | Texon | - | Golfball hail was reported at the Benedum Gas Plant on the Reagan/Upton County line. |
| September 2003 | Hail | Texon | - | Reported at a rural gas plant on the Upton/Reagan County line just off of Farm to Market Road 1555. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Texon | - | Reported on Farm to Market Road 1558 just east of the Upton/Reagan County line. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Texon | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Hail | Texon | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Texon | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Texon | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Rita (historical) | 1.7 miles | 7 | |
| Best | 3.6 miles | 7 | |
| Four Corner Windmill | 6.6 miles | 7 | |
| Big Lake | 12.4 miles | 8 | |
| Stiles | 14.2 miles | 7 | |
| Witco | 18.9 miles | 8 | |
| Crossroads | 23.9 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.
| Wikipedia article on Texon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7708366 | 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 1380651. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.





