Bolivar Peninsula, Texas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Bolivar Peninsula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77650. The Survey maps it on the Caplen quadrangle. 2,769 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBolivar Peninsula grew from 2,417 to 2,769 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 | 2,417 | |
| 2020 | 2,769 | +352 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1933 USGS Caplen quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Caplen quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Caplen quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Galveston quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Caplen quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bolivar Peninsula between 2006 and 2010, burning about 21 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRASH FIRE |
| 16 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 March 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caplen | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Stingaree | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Crystal Beach | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Patton Woods | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Rollover | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Elmgrove | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Gilchrist | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Bolivar Beach | 6.8 miles | 16 |
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 Bolivar Peninsula | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981461 | 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 1852688. 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.







