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Lake Dallas, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lewisville-Flower Mound census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75065. It stands on Carter Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lewisville West quadrangle. 7,708 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 574 feet above sea level.

Lake Dallas within Denton County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Dallas grew from 7,105 to 7,708 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
20107,105
20207,708+603 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

34 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Lake Dallas between 2005 and 2017, burning about 154 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
23 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service9100 TEASLEY
16 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSWISHER ROAD FIRE
5 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service09-0001054
30 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRAZOS @ POST OAK
25 July 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceINDIAN LAKE
11 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN/A
1 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service09-0000813

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Denton County

Storms near this place

29 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Dallas in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 21 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2009LightningLake Dallas1 hurtA man was struck by lightning after it first hit a tree and then jumped to him. The lightning stripped the tree of its bark and some of the bark pieces also hit the man. He was not seriously injured but taken to the hospital.
March 2024HailLake Dallas$300,000HAM relays report of measured two inch hail in Highland Village.
March 2024HailLake Dallas$250,000HAM relayed report of measured 2 inch diameter hail in Hickory Creek.
June 2023HailLake Dallas$250,000no account filed
June 2023HailLake Dallas$200,000A trained spotter reported two-inch diameter hail in Highland Village.
March 2017HailLake Dallas$20,000A trained spotter reported baseball sized hail in the community of Lake Dallas.
March 2017HailLake Dallas$20,000Amateur radio reported golf ball sized hail near Lake Dallas.
March 2008HailLake Dallas$10,000no account filed
March 2023Thunderstorm WindLake Dallas$8,000A 67 mph wind gust was measured in Lake Dallas.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindLake Dallas$5,000A member of the broadcast media reported building damage near the intersection of Interstate 35 and Teasley Dr in Hickory Creek.
April 2017HailLake Dallas$2,000Social media (via Twitter) reported half dollar size hail near Highland Village.
June 2025HailLake Dallas-Quarter size hail was reported in Lake Dallas via amateur radio.
March 2024HailLake Dallas-Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.).
March 2024HailLake Dallas-Amateur radio relayed report of measured ping pong hail just SE of Lake Dallas.
June 2023HailLake Dallas-Hail of 1.5 was reported in southeast Lake Dallas.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLake Dallas-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts of 60 MPH approximately 2 miles south-southeast of the city of Corinth, TX.
October 2019HailLake Dallas-Emergency management reported dime sized hail about a mile northeast of Hickory Creek.
April 2014HailLake Dallas-Amateur radio spotters reported quarter sized hail in the Highland Village neighborhood.
March 2013HailLake Dallas-Penny sized hail was reported in Lake Dallas.
May 2013HailLake Dallas-Trained spotters reported ping pong ball sized hail at Lake Dallas.
June 2012HailLake Dallas-Quarter sized hail was reported 1 mile northwest of Highland Village.
April 2011HailLake Dallas-Quarter size hail fell near Highland Village.
April 2011HailLake Dallas-Quarter size hail fell in Highland Village.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindLake Dallas-Winds gusted to 60 MPH associated with the thunderstorm.
July 2010FloodLake Dallas-Minor flooding was reported at the intersection of Interstate 35 and Swisher Rd near Lake Dallas.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLake Dallas-Thunderstorm winds blew down trees. No dollar estimate of damage was provided.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLake Dallas-Powerlines were blown onto IH 35-E and service roads near Lake Dallas, closing both northbound and southbound lanes of traffic for several hours. Nearby, a gas station canopy collapsed onto two cars. No dollar estimate of damage was provided.
March 2000HailLake Dallas-no account filed
April 1996HailLake Dallas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Denton 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
Hickory Creek1.0 miles12
Harbor Grove1.4 miles12
Hidden Hill2.0 miles12
Highland Village2.2 miles12
Camp Dallas2.4 miles10
Shady Shores3.2 miles11
Corinth3.2 miles11
Lakewood Village3.4 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 DallasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981800The 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 1339497. 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.

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.