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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.

Oak Leaf within Ellis County

Population over time

2 figures

Oak 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,298
20201,552+254 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 19 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

78 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined28
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceE. HIGHLAND ROAD
27 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service128 E. OVILLA RD
10 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLONG BRANCH FIRE
7 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use109 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOVILLA ROAD
4 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4881 MONTGOMERY RD
24 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPRINGBRANCH RD @ LONGBRANCH RD
1 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAIN ST. FIRE
7 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1216 BLACK CHAMP RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis 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
Ovilla1.7 miles21
Red Oak2.7 miles19
Elva3.2 miles19
Sterrett3.4 miles10
Pecan Hill4.3 miles10
Rockett5.9 miles10
Sardis6.9 miles10
Midlothian7.9 miles10

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 LeafAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981163The 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.