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Red Lick, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Texarkana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75503. The Survey maps it on the Leary quadrangle. 946 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 361 feet above sea level.

Red Lick within Bowie County

Population over time

2 figures

Red Lick fell from 1,008 to 946 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
20101,008
2020946-62 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

249 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 249 fires within 5 miles of Red Lick between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,206 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning155
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural5
Smoking1
Other causes1
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 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1995Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3406 GIN RD
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6296
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minor30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Red Lick: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bruce Kennedy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bruce Kennedy Pit 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bruce Kennedy Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bowie 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
Leary2.0 miles18
Nash2.6 miles18
Victory City3.5 miles18
Wamba3.6 miles13
Red Springs4.2 miles18
Wake Village4.3 miles21
Red Bank5.6 miles13
Barkman5.7 miles13

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 Red LickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981279The 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 1380427. 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.