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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.

Springlake within Lamb County

Population over time

2 figures

Springlake 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.

YearPeople Change
2010108
2020145+37 (+34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

9 since 2011

Regional 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/distribution3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
21 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAWK FIRE
2 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPRINGLAKE DITCH FIRES
13 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPRINGLAKE ASSISTANCE
24 May 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLUTHER FIRE
12 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSPRINGLAKE FIRE
10 May 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHOOL HOUSE ROAD FIRE
12 February 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONOCO GRASS FIRE
1 November 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE/MUTUAL AID WITH SUDAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamb County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2010Thunderstorm WindSpringlake$100,000Severe 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 1999HailSpringlake$25,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSpringlake$10,000Broadcast 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 1996Thunderstorm WindSpringlake$5,000no account filed
July 2024HailSpringlake-A report from the public was received of hail ranging in size from half dollars to ping pongs.
May 2019HailSpringlake-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail three miles north of Springlake along US Highway 385.
October 2018HailSpringlake-Damage was unknown.
June 2013HailSpringlake-A trained storm spotter reported hen egg size hail near Springlake. No damage was reported.
October 2011HailSpringlake-A storm spotter reported hail ranging in size from dime to nickels. Crops were also damaged due to the hail.
June 2010HailSpringlake-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 2010Thunderstorm WindSpringlake-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 2006HailSpringlake-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 2005HailSpringlake-no account filed
July 2004HailSpringlake-no account filed
August 2001HailSpringlake-no account filed
May 1996HailSpringlake-no account filed
May 1995Tornado (F0)Springlake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lamb 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
Circle4.8 miles9
Earth5.6 miles9
Olton9.7 miles9
Fieldton14.0 miles9
Pleasant Valley14.3 miles8
Cofferville15.3 miles9
Sudan16.2 miles9
Hart Camp16.3 miles9

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 SpringlakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981667The 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.