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Pilot Point, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pilot Point-Aubrey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76258. The Survey maps it on the Pilot Point quadrangle. 4,381 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Pilot Point within Denton County

On record in Pilot Point

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Pilot Point grew from 3,856 to 4,381 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
20103,856
20204,381+525 (+14%)

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.

What the histories say of this town

1,670 words

1 chapter about Pilot Point from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
HistoryHistory and Reminiscences of Denton County (1918)1,670 words

Fires near this place

31 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Pilot Point between 2006 and 2018, burning about 351 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use40 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMULLINS
27 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1600 HARPOLE RD
2 August 2006Smoking3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePILOT POINT ASSIST
11 August 2006Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCANTINA LODGE- 185
10 August 2009Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLANKS RD
10 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Denton County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pilot Point in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
August 1994Thunderstorm WindPilot Point-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Denton 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
Mustang6.1 miles7
Aubrey6.5 miles7
Spring Hill6.9 miles7
Green Valley7.9 miles10
Krugerville8.1 miles7
Union Hill9.1 miles8
Parvin11.0 miles8
Providence11.3 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 Pilot PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982258The 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 1365245. 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.