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Wake Village, Texas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Texarkana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75501. The Survey maps it on the Texarkana quadrangle. 5,945 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 341 feet above sea level.

Wake Village within Bowie County

Population over time

2 figures

Wake Village grew from 5,492 to 5,945 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
20105,492
20205,945+453 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

375 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 375 fires within 5 miles of Wake Village between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,209 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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
Debris and open burning211
Missing data/not specified/undetermined102
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes1
Natural1

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
9 September 1995Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service420 STIPP LANE
8 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBUCHANAN RD/SMITH RD
8 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3406 GIN RD
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6296
7 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAY/GILLAM
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service657 SUNRAY RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bowie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Wake Village: 11 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron. 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
S. W. A. PitsIronProducer
DickeyClayUnknown
GallagherClayPast Producer
Hutchinson PitClayProducer
Texarkana PlantClayProducer
Bruce Kennedy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bruce Kennedy Pit 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bruce Kennedy Pit 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bruce Kennedy Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kennedy Sand & Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bowie 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
Nash1.7 miles18
Texarkana3.1 miles21
Eylau3.3 miles21
South Texarkana3.8 miles21
Red Lick4.3 miles18
Hartman4.7 miles18
Red Springs4.8 miles18
Whatley5.4 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 Wake VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980548The 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 1370739. 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.