Sunnyvale, Texas
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Northeast Dallas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75182. The Survey maps it on the Mesquite quadrangle. 7,893 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 486 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSunnyvale grew from 5,130 to 7,893 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 | 5,130 | |
| 2020 | 7,893 | +2,763 (+54%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 20 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.
- 1891 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Garland quadrangle1:62500
- 1959 USGS Mesquite quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1995 USGS Mesquite quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Sunnyvale between 2010 and 2018, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | JAMAICA / LAGOW |
| 11 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2010-0422 |
| 11 July 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 809 HUBBARD |
| 30 June 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROANE ASSIST GRASS FIRE |
| 10 December 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BARNES BRIDGE RD |
| 11 November 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DAL CO |
| 5 October 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HOPEWELL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunnyvale in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Lightning | Sunnyvale | $200,000 | A home on Talbot Drive in Sunnyvale was struck by lightning and damaged by resulting fire. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Sunnyvale | $200,000 | Eight homes and one business was flooded in Mesquite. In addition, numerous roads were flooded and closed. At times, seventeen streets in the city had be closed and five of those were closed for several hours. Highway 80 at Town East Blvd had be closed and I-635 just south of Gross Road was reduced to one lane on the southbound side. A high water rescue was performed at Highway 80 and Town East Blvd at about 9:30 am. The flooding was the result of training echoes over Dallas County. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sunnyvale | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sunnyvale | $2,000 | Mesquite Airport measured a 62 mph wind gust. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Sunnyvale | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tripp | 0.1 miles | 20 | |
| New Hope | 2.2 miles | 20 | |
| Mesquite | 2.9 miles | 20 | |
| Rose Hill | 4.1 miles | 20 | |
| Balch Springs | 5.7 miles | 19 | |
| Centerville | 6.4 miles | 22 | |
| Lawson | 6.5 miles | 19 | |
| Reinhardt | 7.3 miles | 21 |
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 Sunnyvale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981781 | 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 1348079. 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.







