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Lake City, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mathis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78368. It lies near Mesquite Island. The Survey maps it on the Sandia quadrangle. 447 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

Lake City within San Patricio County

Population over time

3 figures

Lake City fell from 526 to 447 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
2000526
2010509-17 (-3%)
2020447-62 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

107 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Lake City between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,851 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use13
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
8 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM JEFF MYERS
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1100 FM 1540
23 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 70
16 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENRY BARAJAS
11 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service110 STARCKE ST
1 September 2019Natural8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCGEE
9 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE 09
7 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 357&F.M. 70

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Patricio County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lake City: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mathis PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche
Mcrae PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Porter PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche
Texas Hauling ContractorsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wright PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche

Every working recorded in San Patricio 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
Clearwater Cove1.2 miles11
Edgewater Estates Number 1 Colonia1.6 miles11
Edgewater Estates1.7 miles11
Edgewater Estates Number 3 Colonia1.7 miles11
Paisano Park Colonia1.7 miles11
Lakewood Heights2.0 miles11
Lakeside2.2 miles11
Point Loma2.5 miles11

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982188The 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 1388616. 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.