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Oak Valley, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Corsicana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75110. The Survey maps it on the Corbet quadrangle. 406 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 420 feet above sea level.

Oak Valley within Navarro County

Population over time

3 figures

Oak Valley grew from 401 to 406 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
2000401
2010368-33 (-8%)
2020406+38 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

291 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 291 fires within 5 miles of Oak Valley between 2004 and 2020, burning about 2,092 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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 burning131
Missing data/not specified/undetermined94
Equipment and vehicle use32
Arson/incendiarism13
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
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
7 September 2008Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSW COUNTY ROAD 0020 / SW COUNTY ROAD 0030 (41)
3 September 2005Debris and open burning125 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2010Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10-13411
26 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6234 W STATE HIGHWAY 31,(44)
26 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service564 SW CR 0005
23 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navarro County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Oak Valley: 1 producer. 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
Whiteselle Brick and Lumber CoClayProducer

Every working recorded in Navarro 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
Retreat2.0 miles10
Corbet2.2 miles9
Pickett2.4 miles10
Drane4.0 miles9
Angus4.6 miles10
Mustang4.6 miles10
Corsicana4.9 miles10
Black Hills5.9 miles9

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 ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q630500The 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 1388552. 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.