Banquete, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Bishop census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78380. It stands on Agua Dulce Creek. The Survey maps it on the Banquete quadrangle. 745 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 95 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBanquete grew from 726 to 745 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 726 | |
| 2020 | 745 | +19 (+3%) |
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 Banquete quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
15 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Banquete between 2003 and 2011, burning about 670 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HY44 @ CR 83 A |
| 8 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HY 44 @ CR 83 |
| 22 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM66 @ CR44 |
| 12 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BANQUETE CREEK @666 |
| 29 June 2011 | Smoking | 500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FOUR SIX FIRE |
| 14 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WAR BONNET1 |
| 7 February 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 February 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 70 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Banquete in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood, 2 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Banquete | 1 hurt, $80,000 | Sheriff and public report of a tornado. The tornado flipped over a vehicle and caused structuraldamage to homes. One man was injured with minor facial lacerations from flying debris and glass. |
| May 2015 | Lightning | Banquete | $50,000 | Lightning struck an oil tank causing an explosion and fire. The tank was near Farm to Market Road 666 and County Road 83 north of Banquete. |
| April 2010 | Flood | Banquete | $20,000 | A flood wave from previous rainfall on the 16th and 17th, continued down Banquette Creek. A driver tried to cross the flooded roadway at the creek near CR 38 and CR 83 and lost control of the vehicle. All four passengers were able to abandon the vehicle to safety. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Banquete | $10,000 | House damaged by hail around the size of golf balls. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Banquete | $5,000 | A section of the roof of a mobile home was blown off by high winds on Sweet Water Road. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Banquete | $5,000 | Power lines were blown down by high winds in the community of Banquete. |
| January 2010 | Flood | Banquete | - | Widespread lowland flooding of fields, creeks and rural country and farm to market roads was observed across Nueces County. SH 286 was closed between FM 2444 and FM 70 due to flooding, particularly between CR 12 and CR14. Flooding occurred at FM 2292 and Leopard Street. Flooding occurred on SH 44, from Business 44 to FM 1889. Water was reported over SH 361 at various locations inside the Port Aransas city limits. Water was over SH 357, just west of the La Jolla Creek bridge. Flooding was reported on FM 763, between FM 665 and FM 0043. Water was reported over FM 2826, between CR 85 and CR 87. Water was reported over FM 2292, between McGloin St. and FM 665. Several roads in the city of Bishop were reported flooded. North and southbound feeder roads on U.S. 77 were closed, between CR 44 and Terry Shemise Blvd, due to flooding. FM 70 was closed at FM 624 due to flooding. Flooding of these roads, creeks, and lowland fields were observed several hours after the heavy rainfall had ended. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Banquete | - | A NWS Storm Survey Team found evidence of a very brief tornado touchdown along FM 666, between Banquete and CR 44. Several mesquite trees were almost uprooted and a telephone line pulled down to the ground. Winds were estimated to be around 65 mph, with a path length of roughly 50-100 yards. This tornado occurred in the outer rainbands of Hurricane Alex. |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Banquete | - | Texas Department of Transportation reported water over the road on FM 666 from County Roads 36 to 30. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Banquete | - | A roof was completely blown off of a mobile home. |
| July 2000 | Flash Flood | Banquete | - | Sheriff reported one foot of water covering County Road 101. |
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 | 2.0 miles | 8 | |
| Rabb | 2.5 miles | 8 | |
| Spring Gardens | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| North San Pedro | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Agua Dulce | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Bluntzer | 6.3 miles | 8 | |
| San Pedro | 6.4 miles | 13 | |
| Lost Creek | 6.7 miles | 9 |
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 Banquete | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q979517 | 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 1330012. 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.







