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Westlake, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 76262. The Survey maps it on the Colleyville quadrangle. 1,623 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Westlake within Tarrant County

Population over time

2 figures

Westlake grew from 992 to 1,623 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
2010992
20201,623+631 (+64%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

62 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Westlake between 2005 and 2020, burning about 466 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Smoking2
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
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePARK VISTA
11 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKATY RD
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceALLIANCE GATEWAY
7 August 2008Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCCURDY
5 August 2006Arson/incendiarism40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARSHALL CREEK- 172
19 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKATY
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKATY ROAD
13 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceKATY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant 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
Southlake4.7 miles18
Keller4.9 miles16
Pine Tree Estates Number 25.4 miles16
Old Union5.8 miles18
Bransford6.5 miles18
Grapevine7.3 miles18
Colleyville7.9 miles18
Haslet8.2 miles16

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 WestlakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982660The 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 1379259. 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.