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Woodlake Park, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75021. It stands on Loy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sherman quadrangle.

Woodlake Park within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

230 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Woodlake Park between 2005 and 2020, burning about 890 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined107
Debris and open burning58
Equipment and vehicle use28
Arson/incendiarism13
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service75FIRE
9 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service75 COMMAND
9 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service91
9 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHLAND PARK
8 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREX CRUSE
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 691
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAURTHUR
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFALLON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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
Twin City0.7 miles12
Ellsworth1.2 miles12
Mills2.2 miles12
Frontier Village2.6 miles12
North Sherman Junction3.1 miles12
Sherman Junction3.1 miles12
Knollwood3.3 miles12
Denison4.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1371911. 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.