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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.

Palisades within Randall County

Population over time

3 figures

Palisades 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.

YearPeople Change
2000352
2010325-27 (-8%)
2020268-57 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

207 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined103
Equipment and vehicle use39
Debris and open burning33
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2019Equipment and vehicle use42 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWASHINGTON
30 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCLAUDE HIGHWAY AND TANGLEWOOD
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURLINGTON ROAD
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2219
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1191
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePOTTER RD
25 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCCORMICK
22 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1184

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randall 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
Lake Tanglewood0.9 miles8
Timbercreek Canyon1.0 miles8
Zita5.5 miles8
Rockwell Place5.8 miles8
Canyon8.3 miles9
Cleta11.5 miles9
Ogg16.3 miles9
Umbarger17.7 miles10

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 PalisadesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2314549The 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.