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.
Population over time
2 figuresWilson 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 489 | |
| 2020 | 434 | -55 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 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.
- 1954 USGS Lubbock quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1965 USGS Wilson quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Slaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
39 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 18 & AA |
| 17 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR Y TANK BATTERY |
| 5 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | NORTH POKA LAMBRO |
| 4 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRAILER COMPLEX |
| 7 June 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM400 TEXAS STAR |
| 27 June 2009 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE 1205 MERREM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
43 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $15,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed a barn and damaged a house. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Wilson | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Wilson | $1,000 | A trained spotter lost a windshield 7E New Home. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Wilson | - | 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 2025 | Hail | Wilson | - | A report was received on mPing of quarter size hail in northern Lynn County. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Wilson | - | A storm chaser reported golf ball size hail west of Wilson. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Wilson | - | A report from the public was received of quarter size hail in Wilson. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Wilson | - | A report was received via mPING of quarter size hail just west of Southland on the west side of the Lynn County line. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Wilson | - | A picture from social media showed quarter size hail a couple of miles southeast of Southland. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Wilson | - | A trained spotter measured 2.25 inch diameter hail about five miles northwest of Wilson. No known damage accompanied the hail. |
| May 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Wilson | - | A funnel cloud was reported along the Lynn and Garza County line east of Wilson. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (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 2009 | Hail | Wilson | - | 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 2009 | Hail | Wilson | - | The public reported quarter size hail along Farm to Market Road 211 west of Slide around 16:00 CST. |
| August 2006 | Tornado (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 2005 | Hail | Wilson | - | Hail covered the roadway. |
| September 1999 | Hail | Wilson | - | 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 2020 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Flood | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Flood | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| February 2000 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Wilson | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilson | - | 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.
| Wikipedia article on Wilson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982523 | 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 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.


