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Opdyke West, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Levelland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79336. The Survey maps it on the Levelland East quadrangle. 220 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,471 feet above sea level.

Opdyke West within Hockley County

Population over time

3 figures

Opdyke West grew from 188 to 220 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
2000188
2010174-14 (-7%)
2020220+46 (+26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Opdyke West between 2011 and 2016, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
25 April 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN HWY 385
19 April 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 114 DITCH
26 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service108 BUTCH
16 February 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2300 ELLIS
31 January 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceELPASO RD/SUNRISE LN
31 January 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service204 LOBO
22 January 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceA&M LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hockley 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
Opdyke1.4 miles8
Levelland4.0 miles7
Arnett6.9 miles7
Smyer7.4 miles9
Clauene9.8 miles7
Whitharral10.1 miles7
Coble10.6 miles7
Sundown13.7 miles7

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 Opdyke WestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982195The 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 1388575. 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.