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Arroyo Gardens, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Rio Hondo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78583. The Survey maps it on the Laguna Atascosa quadrangle. 420 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 19 feet above sea level.

Arroyo Gardens within Cameron County

Population over time

2 figures

Arroyo Gardens fell from 456 to 420 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
2010456
2020420-36 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

36 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Arroyo Gardens between 2002 and 2020, burning about 477 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism4

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
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexTUFF LUCK
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism15 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexHONDO
5 August 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 August 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresLaguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge803 & KEMPNER
3 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN 1847
1 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge Complex345

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron 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
Alfredo Garza Colonia0.3 miles11
Las Yescas0.7 miles13
Arroyo Gardens Number 2 Colonia0.8 miles11
Vicente Sandoval Colonia1.1 miles11
Gumesindo Galvan Colonia1.1 miles11
La Tina Ranch1.1 miles11
La Tina1.2 miles11
Leonar B De Villarreal Colonia1.3 miles11

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 Arroyo GardensAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2918338The 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 2413613. 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.