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Oak Grove, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Kaufman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75142. The Survey maps it on the Kaufman quadrangle. 617 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 420 feet above sea level.

Oak Grove within Kaufman County

Population over time

2 figures

Oak Grove grew from 603 to 617 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
2010603
2020617+14 (+2%)

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

194 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 2005 and 2020, burning about 562 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined61
Debris and open burning60
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism15
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Smoking12
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2013Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service5676 CHRYL LANE
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCITY LAKE
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCITY LAKE 1
6 September 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFAIR GROUNDS
6 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 151
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePYLE HILL
5 September 2011Smoking40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJIBA
5 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service6274 RAYMOND RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kaufman 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
Jiba2.7 miles10
Scurry3.4 miles11
Kaufman3.8 miles10
Grays Prairie4.6 miles10
Warsaw Center5.3 miles11
Warsaw5.4 miles11
Cottonwood5.9 miles9
Becker6.6 miles13

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 Oak GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973507The 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 1388559. 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.