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Sanctuary, Texas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Springtown-Reno census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76020. The Survey maps it on the Azle quadrangle. 337 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 768 feet above sea level.

Sanctuary within Parker County

Population over time

3 figures

Sanctuary grew from 256 to 337 between 2000 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
2000256
2010329+73 (+29%)
2020337+8 (+2%)

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

125 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Sanctuary between 2005 and 2014, burning about 680 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined81
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1100 OLD RENO RD
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7633 VEAL STATION RD
2 September 2009Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service261 EDWARDS FARRIS ROAD
15 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1490 REESE LN
14 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1811 HIGHLAND CIR
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2195 FLAT ROCK RD
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Parker County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sanctuary: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Williams Sand and Gravel OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Parker 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
La Junta1.1 miles20
Sabathany1.5 miles20
Reno2.5 miles20
Highland Addition3.1 miles18
Springtown6.6 miles18
Carter8.3 miles18
Wright8.9 miles16
Dicey9.3 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 SanctuaryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981497The 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 1388545. 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.