Lake Kiowa, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Gainesville Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76240. The Survey maps it on the Woodbine quadrangle. 2,254 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 709 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLake Kiowa grew from 1,906 to 2,254 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,906 | |
| 2020 | 2,254 | +348 (+18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1902 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1943 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Woodbine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
133 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Lake Kiowa between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,150 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 67 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CARTWRIGHT HILL LN |
| 10 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH PILE |
| 1 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS/HAY FIRE |
| 8 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 222 |
| 3 August 2011 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR219 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shady Grove | 2.2 miles | 12 | |
| Woodbine | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Burns City | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Oak Ridge | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Cook | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Mountain Springs | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Gainesville | 7.2 miles | 13 | |
| Road Runner | 7.4 miles | 9 |
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 Kiowa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q978501 | The 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 1852719. 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.






