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Pelican Bay, Texas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fort Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76020. It lies near Pelican Island. The Survey maps it on the Azle quadrangle. 2,049 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.

Pelican Bay within Tarrant County

Population over time

2 figures

Pelican Bay grew from 1,547 to 2,049 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
20101,547
20202,049+502 (+32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 20 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

62 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Pelican Bay between 2005 and 2020, burning about 527 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13350 BRIAR RD
28 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1100 OLD RENO RD
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2195 FLAT ROCK RD
7 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFOSSIL RIDGE
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceVEAL STATION AND FM 730
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGILLEY ROAD AND NEWSOME MOUND
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service301 GILLEY LANE
24 August 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service905 GREG STREET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pelican Bay: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Trinity Division Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Williams Sand and Gravel OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Center Point1.6 miles20
Lake Forest2.1 miles20
Azle2.3 miles20
Peden2.3 miles20
Lakeview3.5 miles16
Castle Hill Estate3.7 miles15
Pecan Acres4.1 miles16
Eagle Mountain4.4 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 Pelican BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977943The 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 1388546. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.