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Westdale, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Orange Grove-Sandia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78372. The Survey maps it on the Orange Grove quadrangle. 325 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 213 feet above sea level.

Westdale within Jim Wells County

Population over time

3 figures

Westdale grew from 295 to 325 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
2000295
2010372+77 (+26%)
2020325-47 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys

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

214 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Westdale between 2007 and 2020, burning about 1,435 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning100
Missing data/not specified/undetermined87
Equipment and vehicle use22
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 304
27 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service5 MILES WEST ON 624
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service417 JENIFER LOOP
16 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENRY BARAJAS
14 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service649 CR 350
14 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 308
13 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service362 CR 323

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jim Wells County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Westdale: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Reynolds PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mosser QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wright Caliche Pit & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jim Wells 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.

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 WestdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978127The 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 1852780. 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.