Dayton Lakes, Texas
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cleveland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77535. It stands on Long John Creek. The Survey maps it on the Capers Ridge quadrangle. 45 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresDayton Lakes fell from 101 to 45 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 101 | |
| 2010 | 93 | -8 (-8%) |
| 2020 | 45 | -48 (-52%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1943 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Capers Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
19 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Dayton Lakes between 1996 and 2012, burning about 207 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 burning | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 11 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODS FIRE |
| 18 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRASH FIRE |
| 21 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE |
| 14 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE |
| 13 June 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Livingston Area | WOODVILLE - 9058 |
| 6 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 364 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandune | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Kenefick | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Simmons Bottom | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Winter Valley Estates | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Lakeland | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Hardin | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Fullerton | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Champ d'Asile (historical) | 4.8 miles | 13 |
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 Dayton Lakes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q969460 | 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 1388550. 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.






