Palisades, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Amarillo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79118. It sits by The Palisades. The Survey maps it on The Palisades quadrangle. 268 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,353 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresPalisades fell from 352 to 268 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 | 352 | |
| 2010 | 325 | -27 (-8%) |
| 2020 | 268 | -57 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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 Amarillo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS The Palisades quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
207 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Palisades between 2006 and 2020, burning about 3,298 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 103 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 39 |
| Debris and open burning | 33 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 42 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WASHINGTON |
| 30 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CLAUDE HIGHWAY AND TANGLEWOOD |
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BURLINGTON ROAD |
| 28 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2219 |
| 25 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1191 |
| 25 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | POTTER RD |
| 25 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MCCORMICK |
| 22 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1184 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Tanglewood | 0.9 miles | 8 | |
| Timbercreek Canyon | 1.0 miles | 8 | |
| Zita | 5.5 miles | 8 | |
| Rockwell Place | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Canyon | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| Cleta | 11.5 miles | 9 | |
| Ogg | 16.3 miles | 9 | |
| Umbarger | 17.7 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 Palisades | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2314549 | 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 1699807. 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.



