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.
Population over time
2 figuresOak 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 603 | |
| 2020 | 617 | +14 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Kaufman quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Kaufman quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
194 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 61 |
| Debris and open burning | 60 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 13 |
| Smoking | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 5676 CHRYL LANE |
| 6 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CITY LAKE |
| 6 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CITY LAKE 1 |
| 6 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FAIR GROUNDS |
| 6 September 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 151 |
| 6 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | PYLE HILL |
| 5 September 2011 | Smoking | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JIBA |
| 5 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6274 RAYMOND RD |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jiba | 2.7 miles | 10 | |
| Scurry | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Kaufman | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Grays Prairie | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Warsaw Center | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Warsaw | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Cottonwood | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Becker | 6.6 miles | 13 |
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q973507 | 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 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.




