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Bixby, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Harlingen-San Benito census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78559. The Survey maps it on the La Feria quadrangle. 352 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

Bixby within Cameron County

Population over time

2 figures

Bixby fell from 504 to 352 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
2010504
2020352-152 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

125 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Bixby between 1993 and 2018, burning about 1,420 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 50 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
Arson/incendiarism50
Debris and open burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Other causes1

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
27 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeOTHL CANAL
25 August 2002Smokingunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexROADSIDE
24 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeCORNER
23 August 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge2556
23 August 2004Arson/incendiarism30 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeLA FERIA
23 August 2004Smoking3.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge Complex9 MILE
28 July 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeOTHA HOLLA
28 July 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeOHC5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Alto Real Colonia0.3 miles13
Nancy Colonia0.7 miles13
Robles Ranch Colonia0.8 miles13
Solis0.9 miles13
La Feria Gardens Colonia1.0 miles13
North La Feria Village Colonia1.0 miles13
Solis Colonia1.3 miles13
La Feria1.7 miles13

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 BixbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982101The 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 1330729. 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.