Westover, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Seymour Rural census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76380. The Survey maps it on the Westover 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 Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Westover quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Haskell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Westover between 2005 and 2020, burning about 5,404 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WESTOVER |
| 16 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LIVINGSTON FARM |
| 21 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HALL ROAD(GRASS) |
| 28 July 2006 | Natural | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KEITH RES |
| 22 July 2020 | Natural | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE BAYLOR CO |
| 10 July 2018 | Natural | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WESTOVER GRASS FIRE |
| 14 December 2008 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westover in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 15 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westover | $10 | Large tree limbs were downed. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westover | - | No damage reported. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westover | - | No damage was reported. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Westover | - | No damage was reported. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westover | - | Half dollar size hail was also reported along with the 60 mph wind gusts. No damage was reported. |
| July 2002 | Funnel Cloud | Westover | - | This funnel cloud was observed by the Megargel Fire Department from Archer County and was described as very thin and extending very close to the ground. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westover | - | Thunderstorms in the western part of north Texas late on the 29th and early on the 30th produced damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds damaged roofs, carports, and trees and downed power lines in Munday, downed power lines in Quanah, tore the roofs off barns, and broke off large tree limbs in Goodlett, broke power poles, damaged roofs, and blew a cattle trailer over near Crowell, and ripped a roof off an abandoned house eight miles south-southwest of Crowell. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Westover | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Westover | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Westover | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Westover | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Westover | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Westover | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Westover | - | no account filed |
| October 2011 | Hail | Westover | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westover | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Westover | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Westover | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westover | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westover | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westover | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westover | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Westover | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westover | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westover | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Westover | - | no account filed |
| February 1994 | Hail | Westover | - | no account filed |
| October 1993 | Hail | Westover | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round Timber | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Ogden | 10.5 miles | 7 | |
| Lively | 10.9 miles | 7 | |
| Fulda | 13.1 miles | 7 | |
| Mabelle | 13.5 miles | 7 | |
| Seymour | 14.5 miles | 7 | |
| Bomarton | 21.7 miles | 7 | |
| Red Springs | 22.4 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 Westover | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q112980167 | 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 1380762. 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.



