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.
Population over time
3 figuresOpdyke 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 188 | |
| 2010 | 174 | -14 (-7%) |
| 2020 | 220 | +46 (+26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Brownfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Levelland East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Levelland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2011Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 April 2011 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | N HWY 385 |
| 19 April 2011 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 114 DITCH |
| 26 February 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 108 BUTCH |
| 16 February 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2300 ELLIS |
| 31 January 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ELPASO RD/SUNRISE LN |
| 31 January 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 204 LOBO |
| 22 January 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | A&M LANE |
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.
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 West | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982195 | 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 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.




