Springlake, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Earth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79082. The Survey maps it on the Springlake quadrangle. 145 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,683 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSpringlake grew from 108 to 145 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 108 | |
| 2020 | 145 | +37 (+34%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Springlake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Muleshoe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Springlake between 2011 and 2017, burning about 251 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAWK FIRE |
| 2 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SPRINGLAKE DITCH FIRES |
| 13 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SPRINGLAKE ASSISTANCE |
| 24 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LUTHER FIRE |
| 12 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SPRINGLAKE FIRE |
| 10 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SCHOOL HOUSE ROAD FIRE |
| 12 February 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONOCO GRASS FIRE |
| 1 November 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE/MUTUAL AID WITH SUDAN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springlake in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 12 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Springlake | $100,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a well house, uprooted a tree, and blew over a center pivot irrigation system on a farmstead west of U.S. Highway 385 southwest of Springlake. No injuries were reported. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Springlake | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Springlake | $10,000 | Broadcast media relayed reports of a wall of dust with damaging winds in Springlake. Damage was mostly light and confined to small tree limbs and fencing. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Springlake | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Springlake | - | A report from the public was received of hail ranging in size from half dollars to ping pongs. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Springlake | - | A trained spotter reported quarter size hail three miles north of Springlake along US Highway 385. |
| October 2018 | Hail | Springlake | - | Damage was unknown. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Springlake | - | A trained storm spotter reported hen egg size hail near Springlake. No damage was reported. |
| October 2011 | Hail | Springlake | - | A storm spotter reported hail ranging in size from dime to nickels. Crops were also damaged due to the hail. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Springlake | - | Storm spotters reported quarter size hail accompanied by thunderstorm wind gusts in excess of 60 mph south of Springlake. Local farmers and newspaper articles reported that the hail crushed newly planted cotton crops. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Springlake | - | Storm spotters reported thunderstorm wind gusts in excess of 60 mph accompanied by quarter size hail south of Springlake. Local farmers and newspaper articles reported that the wind-blown hail crushed newly planted cotton crops. |
| September 2006 | Hail | Springlake | - | A severe thunderstorm tracked northeastward from near Springlake to Olton. Multiple reports of large hail that ranged from penny to quarter size were received along the storm's path. Nickel size hail was initially reported five miles south of Springlake along U.S. Highway 385 at 16:10 CST. A motorist on U.S. Highway 70 reported quarter size hail west of Olton at 16:30 CST. Hail up to the size of pennies was reported in Olton at 16:44 as the main core of the storm passed just northwest of the city. No significant property or agricultural damage was reported. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Springlake | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Springlake | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Springlake | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Springlake | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Springlake | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Circle | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Earth | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| Olton | 9.7 miles | 9 | |
| Fieldton | 14.0 miles | 9 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 14.3 miles | 8 | |
| Cofferville | 15.3 miles | 9 | |
| Sudan | 16.2 miles | 9 | |
| Hart Camp | 16.3 miles | 9 |
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 Springlake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981667 | The 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 1369043. 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.



