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West Livingston, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Livingston-Onalaska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77351. It stands on East Tempe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blanchard quadrangle. 8,156 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

West Livingston within Polk County

Population over time

3 figures

West Livingston grew from 6,612 to 8,156 between 2000 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
20006,612
20108,071+1,459 (+22%)
20208,156+85 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of West Livingston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 296 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 875
7 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 323
29 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 1992Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Livingston: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Goodrich Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Polk 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
East Tempe1.0 miles12
Moore Hill1.7 miles12
Livingston3.8 miles12
Tigerville3.8 miles12
Lamont3.9 miles12
Blanchard3.9 miles12
Swartout4.1 miles12
West Tempe4.6 miles13

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 West LivingstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977688The 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 1852781. 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.