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Horizon City, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the El Paso East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79928. The Survey maps it on the Clint NW quadrangle. 22,489 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,022 feet above sea level.

Horizon City within El Paso County

Population over time

2 figures

Horizon City grew from 16,735 to 22,489 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
201016,735
202022,489+5,754 (+34%)

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

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Horizon City in 2011, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Arson/incendiarism7

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 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceEASTLAKE
4 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTYDERWOOD
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceROSLYN
25 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREEN DALE
8 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSUNSET HILLS
30 July 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePASEO DE SURTE
30 October 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRUDI KUEFNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Paso 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 Horizon City: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Section 10Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in El Paso 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.

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 Horizon CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979346The 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 1359564. 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.