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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.

Bolivar Peninsula within Galveston County

Population over time

2 figures

Bolivar 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,417
20202,769+352 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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 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 burning3
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
14 September 2006Arson/incendiarism10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH FIRE
16 April 2007Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 March 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Galveston 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
Caplen3.3 miles14
Stingaree3.4 miles16
Crystal Beach3.5 miles16
Patton Woods3.7 miles16
Rollover4.3 miles13
Elmgrove5.1 miles16
Gilchrist5.4 miles13
Bolivar Beach6.8 miles16

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 PeninsulaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981461The 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.