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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.

Chula Vista Colonia within Cameron County

Population over time

2 figures

Chula 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.

YearPeople Change
2010288
2020257-31 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

130 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined54
Debris and open burning50
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
6 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexMIDGET
27 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
23 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
18 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 August 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE FM 2480
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron 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
Orason Acres Colonia0.2 miles14
Shoemaker Acres Colonia0.3 miles14
Del Mar Heights Colonia1.5 miles14
Del Mar Heights1.5 miles14
Los Fresnos1.9 miles14
La Peñusca2.9 miles14
Paredes Estates Colonia2.9 miles14
Los Cuates3.0 miles14

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 ColoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5768442The 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.