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.
Population over time
2 figuresBenavides 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,362 | |
| 2020 | 1,183 | -179 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1956 USGS Benavides quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1968 USGS Benavides quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Alice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 15 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LAST PATROL |
| 24 January 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 21 January 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P P G Industries Plant | Salt | Producer |
Storms near this place
26 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2013 | Hail | Benavides | 1 hurt, $5,250,000 | NWS 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benavides | $100,000 | Numerous 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benavides | $50,000 | Texas Department of Public Safety reported trees were blown down in Benavides. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benavides | $50,000 | Damaging winds were estimated to around 70 MPH in Benavides. Trees were blown down in the city. |
| March 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benavides | $50,000 | Large healthy tree was uprooted along with other trees blown down. Roof damage occurred to a home. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Benavides | $50,000 | Quarter sized hail occurred in Benavides. |
| March 2013 | Hail | Benavides | $30,000 | Grapefruit sized hail busted windows of vehicles and destroyed solar panels. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benavides | $25,000 | The 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benavides | $25,000 | Mping report of shingles blown off of a home and tree limbs broken. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benavides | $20,000 | The media reported roofs torn off of homes near Benavides. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benavides | $20,000 | Public reported many tree branches were broken across the city of Benavides. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benavides | $10,000 | Strong winds resulted in roof damage to a home near Benavides. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benavides | $5,000 | The Sheriff's Department reported power lines and trees downed near Benavides. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benavides | $2,000 | Large tree limbs were blown down in Benavides. Spotter estimated the wind speeds at around 60 mph. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Benavides | - | Public reported hail up to the size of quarters in Benavides. Most of the hail was the size of pennies. |
| March 2015 | Flash Flood | Benavides | - | Low water crossings were flooded near Benavides. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Benavides | - | Spotter reported nickel sized hail in Benavides. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Benavides | - | 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 2007 | Hail | Benavides | - | Golfball sized hail covered ground 1 mile south of Benavides. |
| July 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Benavides | - | 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Benavides | - | Damaging thunderstorm wind gusts blew the roof off a school. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Benavides | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Hail | Benavides | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Benavides | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Flash Flood | Benavides | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Flash Flood | Benavides | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mario Olga Colonia | 0.7 miles | 8 | |
| San Jose | 5.5 miles | 7 | |
| Realitos Colonia | 12.4 miles | 7 | |
| Realitos | 12.4 miles | 7 | |
| Rios | 12.7 miles | 7 | |
| Rosita | 13.0 miles | 8 | |
| Buena Vista Colonia | 13.2 miles | 7 | |
| North Buena Vista Colonia | 13.2 miles | 7 |
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 Benavides | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q969736 | 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 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.



