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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.

Texon within Reagan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

2 since 2010

Regional 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/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
11 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHNEEMANN RANCH
16 December 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceASSIST BIG LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Reagan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dorchester GasSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Reagan County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024HailTexon-Photo shared on Twitter/X of 3-inch hailstone measured with a ruler.
May 2014HailTexon-A thunderstorm moved over the Western Gas Plant in Reagan County and produced golfball size hail. No damage was reported.
April 2008HailTexon-Nickel to quarter sized hail was reported along Farm to Market road 1555 near the border of Upton and Reagon counties.
February 2005HailTexon-Employees at the the Benedum Gas Plant reported penny size hail on the Upton and Reagan County line.
October 2005Flash FloodTexon-The Reagan County Sheriff's Office reported water running over portions of Farm to Market Road 1675 near Texon.
October 2005Flash FloodTexon-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 2004HailTexon-Golfball hail was reported at the Benedum Gas Plant on the Reagan/Upton County line.
September 2003HailTexon-Reported at a rural gas plant on the Upton/Reagan County line just off of Farm to Market Road 1555.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindTexon-Reported on Farm to Market Road 1558 just east of the Upton/Reagan County line.
May 2016HailTexon-no account filed
October 2002HailTexon-no account filed
May 1999HailTexon-no account filed
April 1997HailTexon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Reagan 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
Santa Rita (historical)1.7 miles7
Best3.6 miles7
Four Corner Windmill6.6 miles7
Big Lake12.4 miles8
Stiles14.2 miles7
Witco18.9 miles8
Crossroads23.9 miles7

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 TexonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7708366The 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.