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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.

Lake Kiowa within Cooke County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,906
20202,254+348 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

133 since 2005

Regional 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 burning67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking6

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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARTWRIGHT HILL LN
10 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH PILE
1 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS/HAY FIRE
8 August 2011Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 222
3 August 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR219

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooke 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
Shady Grove2.2 miles12
Woodbine2.3 miles13
Burns City4.6 miles13
Oak Ridge5.1 miles13
Cook6.5 miles13
Mountain Springs6.9 miles9
Gainesville7.2 miles13
Road Runner7.4 miles9

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 KiowaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978501The 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.