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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.

West Tawakoni within Hunt County

Population over time

2 figures

West 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,576
20201,895+319 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

211 since 1998

Regional 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 burning156
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7873 FM 2101
6 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
6 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 276 & FM 751
30 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFINSTED FIRE
22 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
2 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2005Debris and open burning58 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNORTH TX - 11
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3810

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hunt County

Storms near this place

2 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1993Thunderstorm WindWest Tawakoni-Major flooding was reported on Highway 276 west of Quinlan.
October 1993HailWest Tawakoni-Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Hunt 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
Hawk Cove2.8 miles13
Boles Home5.4 miles13
Quinlan5.7 miles12
Harris6.5 miles13
Cash8.1 miles13
Wieland8.5 miles6
Lone Oak8.5 miles13
Weiland8.5 miles6

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 TawakoniAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975180The 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.