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Lakeside City, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Holliday census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76308. It stands on Pecan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Wichita quadrangle. 1,082 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.

Lakeside City within Archer County

Population over time

2 figures

Lakeside City grew from 997 to 1,082 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
2010997
20201,082+85 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

306 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 306 fires within 5 miles of Lakeside City between 2005 and 2020, burning about 4,308 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined111
Debris and open burning76
Equipment and vehicle use34
Power generation/transmission/distribution32
Smoking18
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1908 WILSON
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND FIRE
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceELLIOTT ROAD POWER FIRE
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service6642 SEYMOUR HWY
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGH ROAD FIRE
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Archer County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lakeside City: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
Lakeside-1CopperOccurrence1864

Every working recorded in Archer County

Storms near this place

53 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeside City in 53 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 33 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
April 2025LightningLakeside City$800,000Relayed social media images show a house fire caused by a suspected lightning strike. Event time is estimated.
April 2025LightningLakeside City$100,000A house fire was reported due to a suspected lightning strike. Event time is approximate.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindLakeside City$30,000Fire department reported 2 barns destroyed, a house with all windows blown out by debris, a barn wrapped in power lines, and 4 power poles down. Time is radar estimate.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLakeside City$15,000Numerous confirmations, including at least one relayed image, of power poles snapped along U.S. Highway 281 near Half House Road. The location is approximate, and the event time is estimated from radar observations.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindLakeside City$8,000Four power poles were downed/snapped by strong winds.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLakeside City$5,000Powerlines were blown down. The report was relayed through mPING. The event time is estimated from radar observations.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLakeside City$5,000Several power lines blown down.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindLakeside City$2,000Shed and windows damages. Time estimated by radar.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLakeside City$50Two inch diameter tree limbs were downed.
April 2026HailLakeside City-The location is approximate.
April 2026HailLakeside City-The report was relayed through mPING.
April 2026HailLakeside City-The report was relayed by amateur radio.
June 2025HailLakeside City-The report was relayed through mPING.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLakeside City-An estimated wind gust near the intersection of U.S. Highway 281 and FM1954. The report was relayed by amateur radio.
May 2024HailLakeside City-Relayed by local fire department.
May 2024HailLakeside City-Time is radar estimated.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindLakeside City-A power pole was snapped near the base. Large tree limbs downed. Time estimated from radar.
May 2020Flash FloodLakeside City-Stretch of 75 feet of road near FM1954 covered in up to 16 inches of water running over the road.
May 2018Flash FloodLakeside City-Water was over the road at Highway 281 and Jentsch Rd.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindLakeside City-The fire department estimated wind speeds near 60 mph.
May 2015HailLakeside City-No damage reported.
June 2007Flash FloodLakeside City-St. HWY 79 at FM 2224 was closed due to high water.
March 1998HailLakeside City-at the intersection of Highway 281 and FM 1954
April 2026HailLakeside City-no account filed
April 2025HailLakeside City-no account filed
April 2025HailLakeside City-no account filed
May 2022HailLakeside City-no account filed
November 2021HailLakeside City-no account filed
November 2021Thunderstorm WindLakeside City-no account filed
April 2021HailLakeside City-no account filed
April 2021HailLakeside City-no account filed
April 2021HailLakeside City-no account filed
May 2020HailLakeside City-no account filed
April 2017HailLakeside City-no account filed
May 2015HailLakeside City-no account filed
May 2014HailLakeside City-no account filed
April 2007HailLakeside City-no account filed
April 2007HailLakeside City-no account filed
April 2007Thunderstorm WindLakeside City-no account filed
July 2007HailLakeside City-no account filed
May 2006HailLakeside City-no account filed
December 2006HailLakeside City-no account filed
February 2005HailLakeside City-no account filed
June 2004HailLakeside City-no account filed
April 2003HailLakeside City-no account filed
June 2003HailLakeside City-no account filed
June 2003HailLakeside City-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLakeside City-no account filed
October 2001HailLakeside City-no account filed
October 2001HailLakeside City-no account filed
March 1998HailLakeside City-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindLakeside City-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindLakeside City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Archer 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
Hartex7.0 miles8
Luke Wilson7.7 miles9
Holliday8.0 miles8
Dads Corner9.5 miles9
Scotland12.3 miles8
Mankins13.7 miles7
Archer City16.6 miles9
Black Flat18.1 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 Lakeside CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979855The 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 1388569. 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.

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.