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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.

Pantego within Tarrant County

Population over time

2 figures

Pantego 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,394
20202,568+174 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

167 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined148
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE LOOP 820
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHANDLEY
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILLBARGER
6 September 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALLEN AVE
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceEAST LOOP 820
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREENBELT
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePATTON
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHN T WHITE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant County

Storms near this place

12 since 2004

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2014Thunderstorm WindPantego1 hurt, $10,000A 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 2012LightningPantego$30,000Lightning started a fire at an office building in Arlington. The fire damaged the attic but smoke and water damaged the other two floors.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindPantego$15,000Part 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 2016HailPantego$8,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindPantego$5,000A public report indicated garage doors damaged, fences blown down and minor roof damage.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPantego$4,000Emergency management reported that a 69 MPH wind gust was measured in the city of Dalworthington Gardens, TX.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPantego-A trained spotter reported tree limbs down in Arlington.
May 2024HailPantego-Report from mPING: Dime (0.75 in.).
May 2020HailPantego-A social media report indicated nickel sized hail approximately 1 mile north of the town of Pantego, TX.
April 2020HailPantego-Quarter sized hail was reported on Pantego Drive in west Arlington.
June 2004Flash FloodPantego-Some roads were flooded and impassable.
April 2004HailPantego-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tarrant 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
Dalworthington Gardens0.8 miles16
University Park Village1.6 miles16
Johnsons Station2.1 miles16
Arlington3.0 miles18
Tate Springs3.0 miles16
Southland Acres3.4 miles18
Handley3.5 miles16
Lindberg3.8 miles16

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 PantegoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978239The 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.