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Lake Bridgeport, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Bridgeport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76426. The Survey maps it on the Bridgeport West quadrangle. 339 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Lake Bridgeport within Wise County

Population over time

3 figures

Lake Bridgeport fell from 372 to 339 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
2000372
2010340-32 (-9%)
2020339-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

123 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Lake Bridgeport between 2005 and 2018, burning about 3,485 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined64
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking10
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePR 3512 FIRE
11 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use32 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARTIN DAIRY FIRE
8 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2006Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2009Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRIDGEPORT
26 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use132 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCOUT RANCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wise County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Lake Bridgeport: 8 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. 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
Bridgeport PitFire Clay (Refractory)ProducerSedimentary
Bridgeport Pit & PlantsClayProducer
Bridgeport QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Perch Hill QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Bridgeport Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Chico Crushed Stone OperationStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Trinity Div. Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Vulcan Materials Chico QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wise County

Storms near this place

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Bridgeport in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 12 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLake Bridgeport$175,000Thunderstorm winds blew over six trailers at Paradise Bay on the south side of the lake.
March 2020Tornado (EF0)Lake Bridgeport$70,000A tornado began in western Wise Co near El Lago Road and Private Road 1732. The tornado damaged trees and 2 mobile homes in the early part of the track. The most significant damage occurred to property along Moonlight Bay Drive. Dozens of trees were uprooted, snapped or damaged in a wide swath. The roof was partially torn off of one house when the winds entered the garage and tore off the roof over the garage. The tornado then moved over Lake Bridgeport continuing to the northeast. It damaged more trees on the northeast side of the lake between the lake shore and County Road 2952. It did cross CR 2952 but its dissipation point could not be determined as it moved into unreachable land on the east side of the road. The tornado dissipated before reaching the town of Chico. The tornado traveled just over 4 miles and was about 0.3 miles wide at its widest point. The maximum winds were estimated at 110 mph.
May 1995Tornado (F0)Lake Bridgeport$25,000The supercell east of Wizard Wells continued to move northeast and produced another tornado near the Cid Richardson Boy Scout Ranch west of Lake Bridgeport. The tornado then moved northeast across the Lake before lifting. There was damage to a maintenance yard at the boy scout ranch and a few trees 12 inches in diameter were uprooted.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindLake Bridgeport$20,000A public report indicated that several trees were blown down at Lake Bridgeport. Part of a roof was reportedly blown off a house, and a bay door was blown in at the fire department.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindLake Bridgeport$20,000Emergency manager reported that the roof was ripped off the second story of a home on CR 1742. Power line damage was also reported on CR 1742.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindLake Bridgeport$10,000Seventy mph winds were estimated on the west side of Runaway Bay.
May 2015Flash FloodLake Bridgeport$5,000Part of CR 1744 west of Chico was washed out.
October 2013HailLake Bridgeport$5,000Ping pong ball sized hail was reported 2 miles west of Runaway Bay.
October 1994Thunderstorm WindLake Bridgeport$5,000The porch of a lake home was destroyed by high winds.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindLake Bridgeport$3,000Three utility poles were blown down by high winds.
May 2024HailLake Bridgeport-Report via mping of ping pong ball sized hail.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindLake Bridgeport-A trained spotter reported nickel sized hail along with 60 MPH wind gusts in Runaway Bay.
September 2022HailLake Bridgeport-A trained spotter reported nickel sized hail along with 60 MPH wind gusts in Runaway Bay.
April 2020HailLake Bridgeport-A social media report indicated quarter sized hail approximately 4 miles south-southwest of Lake Bridgeport.
May 2016HailLake Bridgeport-Penny sized hail was reported on the west side of Runaway Bay.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Lake Bridgeport-Amateur radio operators reported a brief tornado to the north-northwest of Runaway Bay, near the Sid Richardson Boy Scout Camp. The tornado was on the ground for a brief time, and produced minimal damage to a few trees.
June 2012HailLake Bridgeport-Quarter sized hail was reported at the Bridgeport Camp and Conference Center on Lake Bridgeport.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindLake Bridgeport-Occurred at Runaway Bay on the south end of the lake.
December 1999HailLake Bridgeport-Hail occurred at the intersection of County Roads 2165 and 2125.
December 1999HailLake Bridgeport-Hail occurred at Runaway Bay.
May 1997Flash FloodLake Bridgeport-Over 3.90 inches of rain fell at Runaway Bay, resulting in street flooding.
April 1994HailLake Bridgeport-Trees were damaged by winds estimated at over 60 miles an hour.
April 2008HailLake Bridgeport-no account filed
May 2005HailLake Bridgeport-no account filed
May 2001HailLake Bridgeport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wise 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
Rickels1.6 miles10
Runaway Bay3.8 miles8
Bridgeport3.9 miles10
Chico6.3 miles8
Balsora6.4 miles9
Willow Point7.8 miles8
Draco8.3 miles9
Paradise8.5 miles10

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 Lake BridgeportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981764The 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 1388612. 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.