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China Grove, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Antonio East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78263. The Survey maps it on the Martinez quadrangle. 1,141 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

China Grove within Bexar County

Population over time

3 figures

China Grove fell from 1,247 to 1,141 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
20001,247
20101,179-68 (-5%)
20201,141-38 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of China Grove between 2006 and 2015, burning about 221 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
23 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 87E
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTUART ROAD
16 July 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 87 COMMAND
2 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceE1604 COMMAND
9 April 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3000 ACKERMAN
1 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bexar County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of China Grove: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, General. 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
Unnamed QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Alamo PitClayPast ProducerClay
Rosillo Creek PitClayPast ProducerClay

Every working recorded in Bexar 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
Boldtville1.9 miles11
Martinez2.2 miles11
Sayers3.3 miles11
Kirby5.5 miles12
Salado Junction5.6 miles12
Lone Oak5.7 miles10
Hilltop5.9 miles12
Adkins5.9 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 China GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970816The 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 1332767. 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.