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Golinda, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Chilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76655. The Survey maps it on the Robinson quadrangle. 618 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 482 feet above sea level.

Golinda within Falls County

Population over time

2 figures

Golinda grew from 559 to 618 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
2010559
2020618+59 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 15 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

37 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Golinda between 2006 and 2020, burning about 148 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE - CHINA SPRING
29 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJUNIPER LANE FIRE
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKENNETH PERERSON
17 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN/A
16 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 July 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
27 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Falls 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
North Prairie2.5 miles14
Guda3.0 miles14
Satin3.5 miles14
Mooreville6.1 miles15
Chilton6.8 miles14
Rocky Hill7.4 miles8
Triangle8.3 miles8
Dott8.3 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 GolindaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q976366The 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 1358136. 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.