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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.

Banquete within Nueces County

Population over time

2 figures

Banquete 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.

YearPeople Change
2010726
2020745+19 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys

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

15 since 2003

Regional 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 use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
4 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHY44 @ CR 83 A
8 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHY 44 @ CR 83
22 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM66 @ CR44
12 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBANQUETE CREEK @666
29 June 2011Smoking500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFOUR SIX FIRE
14 June 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWAR BONNET1
7 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 February 2006Equipment and vehicle use70 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nueces County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997Tornado (F1)Banquete1 hurt, $80,000Sheriff 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 2015LightningBanquete$50,000Lightning 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 2010FloodBanquete$20,000A 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 2014HailBanquete$10,000House damaged by hail around the size of golf balls.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindBanquete$5,000A section of the roof of a mobile home was blown off by high winds on Sweet Water Road.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindBanquete$5,000Power lines were blown down by high winds in the community of Banquete.
January 2010FloodBanquete-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 2010Tornado (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 2010Flash FloodBanquete-Texas Department of Transportation reported water over the road on FM 666 from County Roads 36 to 30.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBanquete-A roof was completely blown off of a mobile home.
July 2000Flash FloodBanquete-Sheriff reported one foot of water covering County Road 101.

Every storm recorded in Nueces 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
Rancho Banquete2.0 miles8
Rabb2.5 miles8
Spring Gardens4.2 miles13
North San Pedro6.0 miles13
Agua Dulce6.2 miles8
Bluntzer6.3 miles8
San Pedro6.4 miles13
Lost Creek6.7 miles9

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 BanqueteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979517The 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.