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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.

Dayton Lakes within Liberty County

Population over time

3 figures

Dayton 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.

YearPeople Change
2000101
201093-8 (-8%)
202045-48 (-52%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

19 since 1996

Regional 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 burning12
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
21 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE
18 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH FIRE
21 June 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
14 June 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
13 June 2012Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresLivingston AreaWOODVILLE - 9058
6 May 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 364

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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
Sandune2.9 miles13
Kenefick3.1 miles13
Simmons Bottom3.5 miles12
Winter Valley Estates3.6 miles12
Lakeland4.1 miles12
Hardin4.4 miles13
Fullerton4.6 miles13
Champ d'Asile (historical)4.8 miles13

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 LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969460The 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.