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White Settlement, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Fort Worth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76108. The Survey maps it on the Lake Worth quadrangle. 18,269 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 666 feet above sea level.

White Settlement within Tarrant County

Population over time

2 figures

White Settlement grew from 16,116 to 18,269 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
201016,116
202018,269+2,153 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

273 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 273 fires within 5 miles of White Settlement between 2005 and 2020, burning about 255 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined236
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFARNSWORTH
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBENBROOK HWY
28 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARYS CREEK
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHITE SETTLEMENT
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHODGKINS
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJACKSBORO
22 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAMP BOWIE WEST
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSILVER CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tarrant County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of White Settlement: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Bajemi Corp. PitSilicaProducer
Lake Side Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tarrant County

Storms near this place

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Settlement in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2016: 22 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
June 2000Flash FloodWhite Settlement$2,000,000Widespread flooding of homes. 100 homes with major damage and 46 homes with minor damage. Damage to 17 businesses.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWhite Settlement$50,000Houses were unroofed by thunderstorm winds.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWhite Settlement$50,000Signs and power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2011HailWhite Settlement$30,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWhite Settlement$25,000Thunderstorm winds downed powerlines and 21 powerline poles near the intersection of IH 30 and west Loop IH 820.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindWhite Settlement$25,000no account filed
April 2015Thunderstorm WindWhite Settlement$20,000Trees were uprooted near White Settlement.
March 2016HailWhite Settlement$1,000Half dollar sized hail reported in White Settlement and also at Interstate 30 and Las Vegas Trail.
April 2004HailWhite Settlement-Occurred at the intersection of Highway 80 and Interstate 35.
April 2000Flash FloodWhite Settlement-Roads were closed, due to high water from thunderstorm rains, in the southwest part of town.
May 1995HailWhite Settlement-Several trees were blown down along with some large tree limbs on the south end of Lake Benbrook.
April 1994HailWhite Settlement-Hail nickel- to quarter-size fell at WSFO Fort Worth, at the intersection of North Beach Street and Loop 820.
April 1994HailWhite Settlement-Golf ball-size hail occurred in west Fort Worth at the intersection of Interstate 30 and Loop 820. Lake Worth,28,2350CST,,,0,0,0,0,Hail (0.75)
March 2016HailWhite Settlement-no account filed
May 2007HailWhite Settlement-no account filed
June 2001HailWhite Settlement-no account filed
June 2001HailWhite Settlement-no account filed
April 2000HailWhite Settlement-no account filed
April 2000HailWhite Settlement-no account filed
April 2000HailWhite Settlement-no account filed
April 2000HailWhite Settlement-no account filed
May 1999HailWhite Settlement-no account filed
June 1997HailWhite Settlement-no account filed
July 1996HailWhite Settlement-no account filed
April 1996HailWhite Settlement-no account filed
April 1996HailWhite Settlement-no account filed
March 1996HailWhite Settlement-no account filed
May 1993HailWhite Settlement-no account filed
October 1993HailWhite Settlement-no account filed

Every storm 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
Westworth2.5 miles17
Westover Hills2.6 miles15
Westland3.1 miles15
Lake Worth3.2 miles17
River Oaks3.6 miles17
Sansom Park4.3 miles17
Lakeside4.7 miles17
Benbrook6.0 miles15

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 SettlementAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969613The 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 1349989. 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.

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.