BlockThree Leagues, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Tarzan-Lenorah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79331. The Survey maps it on the Flower Grove quadrangle.
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 Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Flower Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Three Leagues between 2005 and 2012, burning about 327 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 300 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 27 March 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ESTES |
| 7 February 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 30 December 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 January 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
10 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Three Leagues in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Three Leagues | $35,000 | Multiple powerlines were blown down along Farm to Market Road 2002. |
| October 2015 | Flash Flood | Three Leagues | $750 | Heavy rain fell across Martin County and produced flash flooding. There was a report from the Martin County Sheriff's Office of people stranded in high water on Highway 349 near the Martin and Dawson County line. The cost of damage is a rough estimate. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Three Leagues | $400 | A thunderstorm produced golf ball sized hail two miles east of Three Leagues. The wind driven hail broke south facing windows on a home. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate. |
| September 2025 | Flash Flood | Three Leagues | - | Pictures of significant flooding with water covering the road on State Highway 137 just south of Flower Grove in Martin County was shared on social media. The time of occurrence is partially estimated by radar. No damage was reported. |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Three Leagues | - | Minor flooding occurred on State Highway 349 just south of the Dawson County line. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Three Leagues | - | A storm developed in Southwestern Dawson County along a stationary outflow boundary, then moved to the southeast into northern Martin County where the hail was reported. This storm became a supercell with strong rotation on its northwest flank. The storm turned 45 degrees to the right of the mean storm motion as calculated by the WSR-88D tracking algorithm and slowed to almost half the speed of the other storms. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Three Leagues | - | Reported by off-duty National Weather Service employee. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Three Leagues | - | A line of thunderstorms moving east out of New Mexico formed a bow echo. A truck was jackknifed 11 miles north of Lamesa by the strong winds. Four utility poles were snapped north of Lamesa. A local radio station in Lamesa recorded 68 mph winds. Many trees in Lamesa were downed, some onto cars and houses, according to the sheriff's office. As the line of storms started to turn southeast, 60 mph winds were reported by the public in Three Leagues. In Stanton, wind gusts up to 85 mph were reported. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Three Leagues | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Three Leagues | - | 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.
| Wikidata item Q122550989 | 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 1348522. 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.