Chula Vista Colonia, Texas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Los Fresnos-Laureles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78566. The Survey maps it on the Los Fresnos quadrangle. 257 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresChula Vista Colonia fell from 288 to 257 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 | 288 | |
| 2020 | 257 | -31 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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.
- 1930 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:24000
- 1936 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
130 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Chula Vista Colonia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,609 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined | 54 |
| Debris and open burning | 50 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 6 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | MIDGET |
| 27 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 23 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 18 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 6 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE FM 2480 |
| 30 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 30 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orason Acres Colonia | 0.2 miles | 14 | |
| Shoemaker Acres Colonia | 0.3 miles | 14 | |
| Del Mar Heights Colonia | 1.5 miles | 14 | |
| Del Mar Heights | 1.5 miles | 14 | |
| Los Fresnos | 1.9 miles | 14 | |
| La Peñusca | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Paredes Estates Colonia | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Los Cuates | 3.0 miles | 14 |
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 Chula Vista Colonia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5768442 | 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 2010335. 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.








