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Wilson, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Wilson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79381. The Survey maps it on the Wilson quadrangle. 434 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,117 feet above sea level.

Wilson within Lynn County

Population over time

2 figures

Wilson fell from 489 to 434 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010489
2020434-55 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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

39 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Wilson between 2006 and 2014, burning about 1,247 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 18 & AA
17 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR Y TANK BATTERY
5 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH POKA LAMBRO
4 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRAILER COMPLEX
7 June 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM400 TEXAS STAR
27 June 2009Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE 1205 MERREM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lynn County

Storms near this place

43 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilson in 43 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 32 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 flood. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindWilson$15,000Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed a barn and damaged a house.
May 1997HailWilson$5,000no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindWilson$5,000no account filed
April 2012HailWilson$1,000A trained spotter lost a windshield 7E New Home.
June 2025HailWilson-A storm chaser reported hail measuring 3.25 inches in diameter west of Wilson. A swath of severe hail was then observed into the town of Wilson with hail up to the size of ping pongs in Wilson. No damage was reported at the time.
June 2025HailWilson-A report was received on mPing of quarter size hail in northern Lynn County.
May 2024HailWilson-A storm chaser reported golf ball size hail west of Wilson.
May 2020HailWilson-A report from the public was received of quarter size hail in Wilson.
May 2020HailWilson-A report was received via mPING of quarter size hail just west of Southland on the west side of the Lynn County line.
May 2019HailWilson-A picture from social media showed quarter size hail a couple of miles southeast of Southland.
June 2013HailWilson-A trained spotter measured 2.25 inch diameter hail about five miles northwest of Wilson. No known damage accompanied the hail.
May 2012Funnel CloudWilson-A funnel cloud was reported along the Lynn and Garza County line east of Wilson.
June 2010Tornado (EF0)Wilson-Veteran storm chasers and VORTEX II photographed a brief and weak tornado in open farmland southwest of Wilson. The tornado developed beneath a broad high-precipitation mesocyclone and on the nose of intense rear flank outflow. One storm chaser reported that airborne gravel and crop debris hit his car as he drove near the tornado. Although widespread wind damages resulted from the parent supercell thunderstorm's outflow, no damages were attributed to the tornado.
April 2009HailWilson-A severe storm developed over northern Lynn County and produced large hail at Wilson. At 14:57 CST, storm chasers traveling through Wilson reported that nickel size hail remained on the ground in the storm's wake, nearly a half hour after the storm impacted the area.
July 2009HailWilson-The public reported quarter size hail along Farm to Market Road 211 west of Slide around 16:00 CST.
August 2006Tornado (F0)Wilson-A Sheriff's deputy observed a landspout tornado in open farm land just west of U.S. Highway 87 in northern Lynn County. The tornado developed beneath a linear complex of multi-cell storms, and was described as a funnel extending from the cloud base with large amounts of dust lofted at the surface. No damage was reported.
August 2005HailWilson-Hail covered the roadway.
September 1999HailWilson-Hail larger than the size of golfballs destroyed crops along a several mile wide swath from northwest of Wayside across Highway 87 to near Wilson. The hail apparently was soft as a damage survey and interviews with citizens in the storm's path indicated little to no property damage.
May 2020HailWilson-no account filed
July 2015FloodWilson-no account filed
May 2015FloodWilson-no account filed
May 2005HailWilson-no account filed
May 2005HailWilson-no account filed
June 2005HailWilson-no account filed
May 2004HailWilson-no account filed
May 2003HailWilson-no account filed
June 2003HailWilson-no account filed
August 2003HailWilson-no account filed
June 2002HailWilson-no account filed
February 2000HailWilson-no account filed
May 1999HailWilson-no account filed
May 1999HailWilson-no account filed
September 1999HailWilson-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWilson-no account filed
June 1997HailWilson-no account filed
June 1997HailWilson-no account filed
June 1997HailWilson-no account filed
May 1996Tornado (F0)Wilson-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindWilson-no account filed
April 1995HailWilson-no account filed
May 1995HailWilson-no account filed
June 1995HailWilson-no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindWilson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lynn 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
Wayside4.4 miles9
New Lynn7.9 miles7
New Home10.0 miles10
Tahoka11.0 miles8
Petty13.8 miles10
Grassland14.2 miles7
Lakeview17.3 miles9
Skeen17.8 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 WilsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982523The 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 1371700. 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.