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.
Population over time
3 figuresOak 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 400 | |
| 2010 | 495 | +95 (+24%) |
| 2020 | 771 | +276 (+56%) |
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 Terrell South quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
327 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 175 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 51 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 50 |
| Smoking | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6525 IH 20 |
| 8 September 2005 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 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 |
| 5 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 136B |
| 4 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ANGELINA |
| 4 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2578 |
| 30 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTHBEND |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cartwright | 0.5 miles | 10 | |
| Wilson | 2.4 miles | 10 | |
| Post Oak Bend | 2.6 miles | 10 | |
| Post Oak Bend City | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Union Valley | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| College Mound | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Abner | 4.3 miles | 10 | |
| Lone Star | 4.9 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 Ridge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1015287 | 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 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.




