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Chula Vista Colonia, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Crystal City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78839. It stands on Espantosa Slough. The Survey maps it on the Crystal City quadrangle. 307 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Chula Vista Colonia within Zavala County

Population over time

2 figures

Chula Vista Colonia fell from 450 to 307 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
2010450
2020307-143 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

101 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Chula Vista Colonia between 2005 and 2020, burning about 295 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1

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
9 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 582 RIVER LOTS
5 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 582
20 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIKE AND BIKE BRUSH
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEXPOSITION GROUNDS
17 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTARR
16 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD UVALDE HWY
20 August 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIVER LOTS FIRE
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 191

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Zavala 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
River Spur0.3 miles10
Popeye Lake Colonia0.8 miles10
Crystal City1.6 miles10
La Hacienda Estates Number 2 Colonia1.6 miles10
Bushy Creek Colonia2.9 miles10
Camposanto-Elcometa Colonia3.0 miles10
Amaya Colonia3.7 miles10
Loma Grande Colonia4.5 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.

Wikidata item Q5768449The 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 2010669. 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.