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Oak Point, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pilot Point-Aubrey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75068. It stands on Cantrell Slough. The Survey maps it on the Little Elm quadrangle. 4,357 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Oak Point within Denton County

Population over time

2 figures

Oak Point grew from 2,786 to 4,357 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
20102,786
20204,357+1,571 (+56%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

72 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Oak Point between 2006 and 2019, burning about 246 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined44
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
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
28 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09-0001492
22 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePOWELL RD.
18 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBREWER RD.
6 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSWISHER ROAD FIRE
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service0812192 GRASS FIRE W/ SOUTHSIDE
12 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service0 AUBREY FIRE
12 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSESSIONS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Denton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oak Point: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Harbert,Hobson,Sewell,AllisonClayProducer
Herbert PitClayProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Denton 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
Lincoln Park2.4 miles10
Shady Shores2.6 miles11
Cross Roads2.8 miles11
New Hope (historical)3.1 miles10
Providence3.4 miles10
Little Elm3.4 miles10
Camp Dallas3.5 miles10
Lakewood Village3.5 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 PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q945972The 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 1388580. 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.