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Oak Ridge, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Terrell South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75161. It stands on Bachelor Creek. The Survey maps it on the Terrell South quadrangle. 771 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 430 feet above sea level.

Oak Ridge within Kaufman County

Population over time

3 figures

Oak Ridge grew from 400 to 771 between 2000 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
2000400
2010495+95 (+24%)
2020771+276 (+56%)

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

327 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 327 fires within 5 miles of Oak Ridge between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,295 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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
Debris and open burning175
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Equipment and vehicle use50
Smoking26
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6525 IH 20
8 September 2005Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
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
5 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service136B
4 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceANGELINA
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2578
30 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTHBEND

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
Cartwright0.5 miles10
Wilson2.4 miles10
Post Oak Bend2.6 miles10
Post Oak Bend City3.2 miles10
Union Valley3.4 miles10
College Mound4.1 miles10
Abner4.3 miles10
Lone Star4.9 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 RidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1015287The 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 1388603. 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.