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Cantu Addition, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Falfurrias census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78355. It stands on Cibolo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Falfurrias quadrangle. 191 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 112 feet above sea level.

Cantu Addition within Brooks County

Population over time

2 figures

Cantu Addition grew from 188 to 191 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
2010188
2020191+3 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

69 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Cantu Addition between 2006 and 2018, burning about 1,222 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning19
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
1 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCO. 401 BROOKS CO.
9 June 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHORT GRASS 1418
29 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCO RD 1118 FM 772
9 May 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceQUINTINALLA RANCH
8 May 2011Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceEMPTY LOT
10 May 2011Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePEREZ/ VILLAREAL RANCHES
24 April 2008Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 April 2008Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brooks County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cantu Addition: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Halite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gyp Hill QuarryGypsum-Anhydrite, HalitePast Producer1911, 1942

Every working recorded in Brooks 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.

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 Cantu AdditionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972755The 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 1852690. 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.