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Westway, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the El Paso Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79835. It lies near Avispa Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Canutillo quadrangle. 3,811 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,960 feet above sea level.

Westway within El Paso County

Population over time

2 figures

Westway fell from 4,188 to 3,811 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
20104,188
20203,811-377 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Westway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
3 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew Mexico State Forestry Division404
2 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Mexico State Forestry DivisionCCT
28 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOACH FIRE
26 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLA JUNTA
15 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWET AND WILD
1 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEDIAN
31 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2015-0629
3 May 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRAILROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Westway: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General. 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
Unnamed Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast ProducerEvaporite, Marine
Unnamed QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast ProducerEvaporite, Marine
Materials Pit 57-91-SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
Unnamed Sand and Gravel ProspectSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel

Every working recorded in El Paso 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
Westway Number 4 Colonia0.1 miles17
Westway Number 1 Colonia0.3 miles17
Westway Number 2 Colonia0.4 miles17
Westway Number 6 Colonia0.4 miles17
Westway Number 3 Colonia0.4 miles17
Westway Number 7 Colonia0.5 miles17
Vinton1.4 miles17
La Tuna1.7 miles17

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 WestwayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978527The 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 1867573. 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.