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Woodloch, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Southeast Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77385. It stands on Sandy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tamina quadrangle. 186 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 108 feet above sea level.

Woodloch within Montgomery County

Population over time

3 figures

Woodloch fell from 247 to 186 between 2000 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
2000247
2010207-40 (-16%)
2020186-21 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Woodloch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,909 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 21 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 burning83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Arson/incendiarism21
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined77 acresLivingston AreaTAMINA FIRE
30 September 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 1993Arson/incendiarism30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 929

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Woodloch: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bullet Concrete Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sandco Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith Sand and Gravel DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Johnson2.8 miles13
Sleepy Hollow2.8 miles13
Tamina3.1 miles13
Shenandoah3.4 miles13
Chateau Woods3.4 miles13
Oak Ridge North4.3 miles13
Wigginsville4.9 miles13
Grangerland5.1 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 WoodlochAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978450The 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 1388602. 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.