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White Oak, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Longview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75693. The Survey maps it on the White Oak quadrangle. 6,225 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 413 feet above sea level.

White Oak within Gregg County

Population over time

2 figures

White Oak fell from 6,469 to 6,225 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
20106,469
20206,225-244 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

544 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 544 fires within 5 miles of White Oak between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,426 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 39 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 burning204
Missing data/not specified/undetermined151
Power generation/transmission/distribution73
Arson/incendiarism39
Equipment and vehicle use34
Smoking15
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural7
Fireworks4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service600 S. LOOP 485
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 42
9 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBINGHAM
8 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1802 N. WHITE OAK RD
8 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePINE 15-318
8 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6177
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTEWART ST
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gregg County

Storms near this place

30 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Oak in 30 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 14 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 2017Tornado (EF1)White Oak$50,000This is a continuation of the Southern Upshur County tornado that initially touched down along North White Oak Road. This tornado strengthened into an EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds between 100-110 mph as it entered Northern Gregg County between Morgan Road and East Mountain Road, where several large pine, cedar, and mesquite trees were snapped or uprooted across open pastureland. A few shingles were also blown off of a home at the intersection of East Mountain Road and Shiloh Road. This tornado partially lifted back to treetop levels as it moved along Shiloh Road, with numerous trees sheared near the top. The most extensive damage came to the Shiloh Baptist Church, where the tornado tore off a small section of the roof and steeple and threw them northeast into the adjacent church cemetery. Several large hardwoods were also snapped at the base or uprooted along Shiloh Road and in the cemetery, with this damage justifying the high end EF-1 damage. The tornado continued east along Shiloh Road where it partially lifted back to treetop level, shearing the tops off of numerous trees before finally lifting about one-half mile west of Farm to Market Road 1845 near the East Mountain community.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindWhite Oak$40,000A tree was blown onto a house causing severe structural damage. Power lines were toppled and numerous trees felled.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWhite Oak$25,000Numerous trees down including trees across two homes causing moderate to light roof damage.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindWhite Oak$20,000A large tree fell on a house on Bingham Road. Another tree was blocking the road at Bingham and White Oak Road.
February 2020Flash FloodWhite Oak-Highway 80 at the Lake Devernia bridge was flooded and closed.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindWhite Oak-A large tree was blown down blocking FM 3272 in White Oak.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWhite Oak-Power lines were downed in Warren City.
May 2017HailWhite Oak-Half dollar size hail fell in White Oak.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWhite Oak-A tree fell onto a home in White Oak.
April 2016Flash FloodWhite Oak-Highway 80 both east and west bounds was closed at Lake Devernia due to flooding.
April 2016Flash FloodWhite Oak-Flooding was reported on George Richie Road on the northwest side of Longview.
March 2016Flash FloodWhite Oak-Numerous roads were underwater and closed in the city of Longview, Texas. The flooding was so widespread that a Disaster Declaration was declared for the city of Longview, Texas as well as for Gregg County itself. As many as 40 used cars were lost to flood waters athe the Patterson Used Car lot on West Cotton Street. More than 25 high water rescues were reported in the city of Longview during the height of the flash flood event. A temporary shelter was set up at the Longview Christian Fellowship Church. The number of structures flooded and the monetary dollar amount of those structures were not available for this writing.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindWhite Oak-Trees were downed in White Oak, Texas.
November 2011HailWhite Oak-Hail was reported in the White Oak community.
April 2004HailWhite Oak-Hail covered the ground.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindWhite Oak-Trees downed.
December 2001Flash FloodWhite Oak-Watley Road and portions of Old Hwy 80 closed from flooding.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindWhite Oak-Several large trees down.
January 1998HailWhite Oak-Softball size hail.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindWhite Oak-Several large trees were blown down across Hwy 80.
August 2003HailWhite Oak-no account filed
March 1999HailWhite Oak-no account filed
January 1998HailWhite Oak-no account filed
January 1998HailWhite Oak-no account filed
April 1997HailWhite Oak-no account filed
April 1997HailWhite Oak-no account filed
October 1997HailWhite Oak-no account filed
May 1996HailWhite Oak-no account filed
May 1996HailWhite Oak-no account filed
April 1996HailWhite Oak-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gregg 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
Clarksville City2.2 miles12
Warren City2.6 miles12
Teneryville2.9 miles13
Shiloh3.0 miles13
Spring Hill4.0 miles13
Greggton4.1 miles16
Gladewater4.4 miles12
Seven Pines4.9 miles13

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 White OakAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977016The 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 1349958. 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.