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Woodlake, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Apple Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75845. The Survey maps it on the Groveton East quadrangle.

Woodlake within Trinity County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Woodlake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23,721 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7117
2 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKICKAPOO WEST
17 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7108
12 September 2013Fireworks2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8069
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 895
11 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8068
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 884
9 August 2015Debris and open burning2.5 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7064

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trinity County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodlake in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
January 2024Flash FloodWoodlake1 killedFlash flooding resulted flooding along Piney Creek Road near Groveton. A man drowned in the floodwaters when attempting to retrieve items from his stranded car. Time was estimated based on radar and nearby flood reports as the man's body was not found until the next day.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWoodlake$30,000Severe thunderstorms downed numerous trees and power lines between Apple Springs and Groveton.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindWoodlake$2,000Trees were reported down along FM 2262 near Piney Creek.

Every storm recorded in Trinity 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
Sumpter (historical)1.2 miles11
Josserand3.0 miles11
Sulphur3.6 miles12
Groveton5.2 miles11
Lacy6.0 miles11
Trevat7.8 miles12
Westville8.8 miles11
Centerville10.5 miles10

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 WoodlakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q915896The 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 1382989. 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.