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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.

Bayview within Cameron County

Population over time

2 figures

Bayview 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.

YearPeople Change
2010383
2020475+92 (+24%)

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

104 since 1994

Regional 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/undetermined49
Debris and open burning35
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
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
6 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexMIDGET
27 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
12 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 August 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE FM 2480
6 August 2012Natural60 acresLaguna Atascosa National Wildlife RefugeBOSWELL
4 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLaguna Atascosa National Wildlife RefugeHWY 106

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBayview-Bayview recorded a peak wind gust of 59 mph.
April 2012Heavy RainBayview-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 2006Thunderstorm WindBayview-A wind gust to 60 mph was measured at the ASOS at the Cameron County Airport in Bayview.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindBayview-Strong thunderstorm winds produced extensive damage to trees and tree limbs.
April 1997Tornado (F0)Bayview-Off duty commercial pilot reported tornado on ground.

Every storm 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
Esquina Colonia3.8 miles11
East Fresnos Colonia3.8 miles11
Paredes Estates Colonia4.0 miles14
Lourdes Street Colonia4.0 miles11
Orason Acres Colonia4.3 miles14
Chula Vista Colonia4.3 miles14
Shoemaker Acres Colonia4.6 miles14
Del Mar Heights Colonia5.1 miles14

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 BayviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q812637The 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.