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Bigfoot, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Moore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78005. The Survey maps it on the Bigfoot quadrangle. 480 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

Bigfoot within Frio County

Population over time

3 figures

Bigfoot grew from 304 to 480 between 2000 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
2000304
2010450+146 (+48%)
2020480+30 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

184 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Bigfoot between 2005 and 2020, burning about 4,558 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined74
Equipment and vehicle use43
Debris and open burning41
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE 486 CR 7713
3 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service140 CR 2660
19 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 173 & BRUMMETT RD
18 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6949 CR 2400
10 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Frio 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
Big Foot Colonia0.4 miles9
Schattel6.5 miles9
Moore7.6 miles8
Miguel8.9 miles9
Goldfinch13.0 miles10
Pearsall East Colonia15.2 miles10
North Pearsall15.2 miles10
Pearsall16.1 miles10

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 BigfootAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981354The 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 1352186. 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.