West Tawakoni, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Quinlan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75474. The Survey maps it on the West Tawakoni quadrangle. 1,895 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 456 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWest Tawakoni grew from 1,576 to 1,895 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 | 1,576 | |
| 2020 | 1,895 | +319 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Quinlan quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS West Tawakoni quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
211 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of West Tawakoni between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,346 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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 burning | 156 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7873 FM 2101 |
| 6 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE |
| 6 September 2011 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 276 & FM 751 |
| 30 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FINSTED FIRE |
| 22 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH FIRE |
| 2 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 58 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NORTH TX - 11 |
| 15 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3810 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Tawakoni in 2 storm reports in 1993: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Tawakoni | - | Major flooding was reported on Highway 276 west of Quinlan. |
| October 1993 | Hail | West Tawakoni | - | Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
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.
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 Tawakoni | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q975180 | 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 1349816. 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.




