Oak Leaf, Texas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Waxahachie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75154. It stands on Willow Brook. The Survey maps it on the Lancaster quadrangle. 1,552 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 604 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresOak Leaf grew from 1,298 to 1,552 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 | 1,298 | |
| 2020 | 1,552 | +254 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 19 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.
- 1891 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1986 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
78 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Oak Leaf between 2005 and 2020, burning about 348 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 | 28 |
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | E. HIGHLAND ROAD |
| 27 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 128 E. OVILLA RD |
| 10 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LONG BRANCH FIRE |
| 7 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 109 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | OVILLA ROAD |
| 4 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4881 MONTGOMERY RD |
| 24 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SPRINGBRANCH RD @ LONGBRANCH RD |
| 1 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MAIN ST. FIRE |
| 7 July 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1216 BLACK CHAMP 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ovilla | 1.7 miles | 21 | |
| Red Oak | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Elva | 3.2 miles | 19 | |
| Sterrett | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| Pecan Hill | 4.3 miles | 10 | |
| Rockett | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Sardis | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| Midlothian | 7.9 miles | 10 |
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 Leaf | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981163 | 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 1388573. 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.





