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Lakeport, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lakeport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75603. It stands on Wood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lakeport quadrangle. 976 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 295 feet above sea level.

Lakeport within Gregg County

Population over time

3 figures

Lakeport grew from 861 to 976 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
2000861
2010974+113 (+13%)
2020976+2 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 16 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

631 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 631 fires within 5 miles of Lakeport between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,380 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 52 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 burning315
Missing data/not specified/undetermined166
Arson/incendiarism52
Equipment and vehicle use30
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Natural13
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Fireworks2

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARRISON 22:15
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17-0012699
9 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service412 WALTER
7 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service15-20225
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000257
6 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service16-24851

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gregg County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lakeport: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ingram PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Texas Bitulithic PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gregg 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
Elderville2.8 miles16
Fredonia4.8 miles16
Rolling Meadows5.6 miles16
Danville6.5 miles16
Kinsloe6.5 miles16
Longview6.6 miles13
Greggton7.7 miles16
Kilgore9.2 miles15

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 LakeportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972970The 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 1388566. 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.