Agua Dulce, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Corpus Christi West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78330. The Survey maps it on the Agua Dulce quadrangle. 685 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresAgua Dulce fell from 737 to 685 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 737 | |
| 2010 | 812 | +75 (+10%) |
| 2020 | 685 | -127 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveysMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Orange Grove quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Agua Dulce quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
17 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Agua Dulce between 2003 and 2017, burning about 125 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | AD HIGH SCHOOL |
| 27 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | E.HWY.44 BY DORSAL FIRE |
| 14 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | E.44-8 MILES E.OF ALICE. |
| 10 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2352 E FM 2044 |
| 28 June 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | E.HWY 44& HWY 359 FIRE |
| 5 February 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 70 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 February 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Agua Dulce in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agua Dulce | $6,000,000 | There were 80 transmission lines blown down upon survey. Time estimated from radar. |
| January 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Agua Dulce | $5,000,000 | A National Weather Service (NWS) storm survey team determined a tornado, that touched down 4 miles southeast of Alice International Airport in Jim Wells county continued northeast for 21.5 miles. It travelled through the northwest side of Robstown and ended near Five Points in Calallen. The tornado was strongest from the west-southwest side of Robstown to its end point near Calallen, where wind speeds of up to 100 mph and a width of 200 yards were estimated. ||Damage to high voltage power lines, poles, large trees, and signs were observed along the path length. In addition, two large sheds, a barn and a tractor were destroyed southwest of Robstown. On the northwest side of Robstown, numerous trees were snapped and several homes had damage to shingles and wooden roofing. Debris in the form of tin, wood, and sports equipment were strewn across Robstown High School. A large section of the roof of the Robstown High School gymnasium was torn off and a two fifteen-ton air conditioning units, weighing around 1 ton each, were blown off the auditorium. Damage occurred to hundreds of cars at two dealerships south of Calallen.||This was the first tornado on record in South Texas during the month of January. Total property damage was estimated to be around 5 million dollars with the tornado. |
| March 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agua Dulce | $20,000 | Texas Department of Transportation reported 14 power poles were blown down on|Farm to Market Road 70 just south of Farm to Market Road 665. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agua Dulce | $5,000 | Public reported 1 inch diameter tree limbs were broken along with shingles blown off southeast of Orange Grove through MPing. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agua Dulce | - | Wind speed estimated by the public from light poles swaying in the wind. |
| October 2017 | Flood | Agua Dulce | - | The Nueces River remained above major flood stage into the first couple of days of October. Farm to Market Road 3408 from I-35, Valley Wells Road, and the frontage road near mile marker 67 were flooded. Flooding also occurred on Dobie Road including in and around Highway 624. |
| March 2015 | Flash Flood | Agua Dulce | - | Portions of 3rd Street and surrounding roads were flooded in Agua Dulce. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Agua Dulce | - | Numerous roads and parking lots were flooded in the city of Agua Dulce. |
| April 2013 | Flash Flood | Agua Dulce | - | Public reported county roads north of Agua Dulce near Rancho Banquete were flooded. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Agua Dulce | - | Pea to nickle sized hail fell at the intersection of FM 70 and FM 665. |
| February 2004 | Hail | Agua Dulce | - | Quarter-size hail reported by law enforcement along Highway 44 between Agua Dulce and Banquete. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agua Dulce | - | Large tree limbs and powerlines down. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agua Dulce | - | Thunderstorm wind overturned a tractor trailer on U.S. highway 44. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agua Dulce | - | Sheriff report of several large trees uprooted and structural damage to homes. |
| October 1998 | Flash Flood | Agua Dulce | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agua Dulce | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rancho Banquete | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Banquete | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Rabb | 8.5 miles | 8 | |
| Spring Gardens | 9.0 miles | 13 | |
| Lost Creek | 9.4 miles | 9 | |
| Palo Alto | 10.2 miles | 9 | |
| Bluntzer | 10.4 miles | 8 | |
| Driscoll | 11.3 miles | 11 |
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 Agua Dulce | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2673471 | The 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 1329253. 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.







