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Benavides, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Benavides census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78341. It stands on Las Animas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Benavides quadrangle. 1,183 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 371 feet above sea level.

Benavides within Duval County

Population over time

2 figures

Benavides fell from 1,362 to 1,183 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
20101,362
20201,183-179 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Benavides between 2006 and 2008, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined4

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
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAST PATROL
24 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Benavides: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
P P G Industries PlantSaltProducer

Every working recorded in Duval County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Benavides in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 12 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
March 2013HailBenavides1 hurt, $5,250,000NWS storm survey concluded that baseball to softball sized hail fell across Benavides causing damage to nearly every home and business in the town. Damage included broken windows, doors, roofs, and siding. The damage was confined primarily to the north and east side of structures. Vehicles were severely dented with large holes in windshields or completely broken out. One person suffered a head injury. The severe hail damaged 258 residences, 100 abandoned homes, and 700 cars.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindBenavides$100,000Numerous large tree limbs were snapped and a few trees completely uprooted. Several power poles were blown down. At a high school, stadium lights were damaged and a dugout roof was ripped off at the baseball field. The high school roof auditorium was also damaged. Part of a gymnasium roof was also torn off. A NWS storm survey of the damage in Benavides revealed a divergent, downburst wind pattern about 1 mile wide and 3 miles long on the southwest side of the town, near Highway 359 and 339. Damage was mainly to trees, metal roofs and weaker, west facing structures.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBenavides$50,000Texas Department of Public Safety reported trees were blown down in Benavides.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBenavides$50,000Damaging winds were estimated to around 70 MPH in Benavides. Trees were blown down in the city.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindBenavides$50,000Large healthy tree was uprooted along with other trees blown down. Roof damage occurred to a home.
March 2016HailBenavides$50,000Quarter sized hail occurred in Benavides.
March 2013HailBenavides$30,000Grapefruit sized hail busted windows of vehicles and destroyed solar panels.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBenavides$25,000The most commonly observed damage from this straight line wind event within Benavides was broken tree branches and limbs with instances of this damage occurring from Main Street to two miles northwest of town along State Highway 339. Loss of roofing materials was noted at a residence near Main Street and South Peters Street.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBenavides$25,000Mping report of shingles blown off of a home and tree limbs broken.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBenavides$20,000The media reported roofs torn off of homes near Benavides.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBenavides$20,000Public reported many tree branches were broken across the city of Benavides.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBenavides$10,000Strong winds resulted in roof damage to a home near Benavides.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindBenavides$5,000The Sheriff's Department reported power lines and trees downed near Benavides.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindBenavides$2,000Large tree limbs were blown down in Benavides. Spotter estimated the wind speeds at around 60 mph.
April 2016HailBenavides-Public reported hail up to the size of quarters in Benavides. Most of the hail was the size of pennies.
March 2015Flash FloodBenavides-Low water crossings were flooded near Benavides.
April 2015HailBenavides-Spotter reported nickel sized hail in Benavides.
May 2015Flash FloodBenavides-Flooding occurred in Benavides with 3 to 4 feet of water flowing through the low lying areas within the city. Water almost reached City Hall. There was 3 to 5 feet of water over the intersection of Humble and Main Streets.
March 2007HailBenavides-Golfball sized hail covered ground 1 mile south of Benavides.
July 2004Funnel CloudBenavides-Reports of several funnel clouds just outside of Benavides from law enforcement as well as numerous citizens. None of the funnel clouds touched down.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindBenavides-Damaging thunderstorm wind gusts blew the roof off a school.
April 2004HailBenavides-no account filed
November 2004HailBenavides-no account filed
May 1999HailBenavides-no account filed
April 1997Flash FloodBenavides-no account filed
April 1997Flash FloodBenavides-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Duval 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
Mario Olga Colonia0.7 miles8
San Jose5.5 miles7
Realitos Colonia12.4 miles7
Realitos12.4 miles7
Rios12.7 miles7
Rosita13.0 miles8
Buena Vista Colonia13.2 miles7
North Buena Vista Colonia13.2 miles7

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 BenavidesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969736The 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 1330408. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.