Bayview, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the East Cameron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78566. The Survey maps it on the Laguna Atascosa quadrangle. 475 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 46 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBayview grew from 383 to 475 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 | 383 | |
| 2020 | 475 | +92 (+24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1930 USGS Laguna Atascosa quadrangle1:24000
- 1936 USGS Laguna Atascosa quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Laguna Atascosa quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
104 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Bayview between 1994 and 2020, burning about 492 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 | 49 |
| Debris and open burning | 35 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 6 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | MIDGET |
| 27 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 12 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 7 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 6 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE FM 2480 |
| 6 August 2012 | Natural | 60 acres | Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge | BOSWELL |
| 4 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge | HWY 106 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bayview in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bayview | - | Bayview recorded a peak wind gust of 59 mph. |
| April 2012 | Heavy Rain | Bayview | - | An off-duty NWS employee reported an estimated 3 to 4 inches of rain along FM 510 near Bayview, with several inches of water flooding nearby roads. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bayview | - | A wind gust to 60 mph was measured at the ASOS at the Cameron County Airport in Bayview. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bayview | - | Strong thunderstorm winds produced extensive damage to trees and tree limbs. |
| April 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Bayview | - | Off duty commercial pilot reported tornado on ground. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Esquina Colonia | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| East Fresnos Colonia | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Paredes Estates Colonia | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Lourdes Street Colonia | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Orason Acres Colonia | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Chula Vista Colonia | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Shoemaker Acres Colonia | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Del Mar Heights Colonia | 5.1 miles | 14 |
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 Bayview | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q812637 | 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 1330174. 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.








