Pantego, Texas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Arlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76013. The Survey maps it on the Kennedale quadrangle. 2,568 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 571 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPantego grew from 2,394 to 2,568 between 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,394 | |
| 2020 | 2,568 | +174 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1894 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Kennedale quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Fort Worth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Kennedale quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
167 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Pantego between 2005 and 2020, burning about 465 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 | 148 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | E LOOP 820 |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HANDLEY |
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILLBARGER |
| 6 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ALLEN AVE |
| 4 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | EAST LOOP 820 |
| 3 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GREENBELT |
| 28 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | PATTON |
| 28 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | JOHN T WHITE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pantego in 12 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pantego | 1 hurt, $10,000 | A chunk of roofing flew off of the girls dorm, and a car was smashed by a falling tree. One of the students received lacerations from broken glass. |
| June 2012 | Lightning | Pantego | $30,000 | Lightning started a fire at an office building in Arlington. The fire damaged the attic but smoke and water damaged the other two floors. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pantego | $15,000 | Part of the metal roof of a business near West Park Row Road and South Bowen Rd in Arlington was blown off by thunderstorm winds. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Pantego | $8,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pantego | $5,000 | A public report indicated garage doors damaged, fences blown down and minor roof damage. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pantego | $4,000 | Emergency management reported that a 69 MPH wind gust was measured in the city of Dalworthington Gardens, TX. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pantego | - | A trained spotter reported tree limbs down in Arlington. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Pantego | - | Report from mPING: Dime (0.75 in.). |
| May 2020 | Hail | Pantego | - | A social media report indicated nickel sized hail approximately 1 mile north of the town of Pantego, TX. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Pantego | - | Quarter sized hail was reported on Pantego Drive in west Arlington. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Pantego | - | Some roads were flooded and impassable. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Pantego | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dalworthington Gardens | 0.8 miles | 16 | |
| University Park Village | 1.6 miles | 16 | |
| Johnsons Station | 2.1 miles | 16 | |
| Arlington | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Tate Springs | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Southland Acres | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Handley | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Lindberg | 3.8 miles | 16 |
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 Pantego | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q978239 | 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 1343518. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.






