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Saint Paul, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Plano census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75098. The Survey maps it on the Wylie quadrangle. 992 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 530 feet above sea level.

Saint Paul within Collin County

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Paul fell from 1,066 to 992 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
20101,066
2020992-74 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

190 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Saint Paul between 2005 and 2016, burning about 355 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 burning66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Recreation and ceremony17
Equipment and vehicle use17
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service14-365
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePARKER RD
7 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKATHRYN
6 September 2014Naturalunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service14-362
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service15-349
29 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSANSEN
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin 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
Wylie1.9 miles12
Seis Lagos2.1 miles12
Lavon Lake Lodges2.5 miles12
Trinity Park3.3 miles12
Lucas3.3 miles12
Beverly Hill3.7 miles11
Murphy3.8 miles12
Clear Lake3.9 miles11

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 Saint PaulAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1093117The 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 1388610. 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.