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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.

Sunnyvale within Dallas County

Population over time

2 figures

Sunnyvale 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.

YearPeople Change
20105,130
20207,893+2,763 (+54%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

7 since 2010

Regional 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
29 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJAMAICA / LAGOW
11 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2010-0422
11 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service809 HUBBARD
30 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceROANE ASSIST GRASS FIRE
10 December 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBARNES BRIDGE RD
11 November 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDAL CO
5 October 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOPEWELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2025LightningSunnyvale$200,000A home on Talbot Drive in Sunnyvale was struck by lightning and damaged by resulting fire.
June 2009Flash FloodSunnyvale$200,000Eight 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 1996Thunderstorm WindSunnyvale$20,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSunnyvale$2,000Mesquite Airport measured a 62 mph wind gust.
April 2024HailSunnyvale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Tripp0.1 miles20
New Hope2.2 miles20
Mesquite2.9 miles20
Rose Hill4.1 miles20
Balch Springs5.7 miles19
Centerville6.4 miles22
Lawson6.5 miles19
Reinhardt7.3 miles21

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 SunnyvaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981781The 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.