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Canyon Lake, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Canyon Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78133. It stands on Tom Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fischer quadrangle. 31,124 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 965 feet above sea level.

Canyon Lake within Comal County

Population over time

3 figures

Canyon Lake grew from 16,870 to 31,124 between 2000 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
200016,870
201021,262+4,392 (+26%)
202031,124+9,862 (+46%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

74 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Canyon Lake between 2005 and 2020, burning about 140 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2011Recreation and ceremony20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNOV-28
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceF.M. 306 FIRE
24 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2673
2 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use12 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFLAMAN ROAD FIRE
8 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMYSTIC SHORES
31 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCANYON SHORES
10 July 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comal 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 Canyon Lake: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Comal County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canyon Lake in 1 storm report in 1995: 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
September 1995Thunderstorm WindCanyon Lake-A mobile home was blown over at Tamarac Shores on north end of Canyon Lake.

Every storm recorded in Comal 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
Canyon Lake Forest0.9 miles15
Westhaven1.0 miles15
Canyon Springs1.3 miles15
Startzville2.2 miles15
Cranes Mill3.5 miles17
Canyon City4.0 miles14
Sattler5.0 miles14
Fourth Crossing5.5 miles14

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 Canyon LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970199The 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 1867545. 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.