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Western Lake, Texas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Weatherford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76087. It stands on Hart Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tin Top quadrangle. 1,762 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

Western Lake within Parker County

Population over time

2 figures

Western Lake grew from 1,525 to 1,762 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
20101,525
20201,762+237 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

122 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Western Lake between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,391 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
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 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service100 WESTERN LAKE DRIVE
8 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARMONY ROAD FIRE
18 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service640 WILD FLOWER TRAIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Parker 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 Western Lake: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Weatherford QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Parker 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
Tin Top1.8 miles20
Powell Crossing5.0 miles18
Harmony5.0 miles18
Bethel5.1 miles18
Buckner5.3 miles18
Baker5.4 miles17
Dennis6.1 miles18
Maxwell Crossing6.7 miles18

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 Western LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6166983The 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 2033799. 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.