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Combes, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Harlingen-San Benito census division. The Survey maps it on the Harlingen quadrangle. 2,999 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Combes within Cameron County

Population over time

2 figures

Combes grew from 2,895 to 2,999 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
20102,895
20202,999+104 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

50 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Combes between 1993 and 2018, burning about 276 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined29
Debris and open burning13
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
18 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePRIMERA COMMAND
13 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILCOX COMMAND
1 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePALOMA BLANCA COMMAND
3 August 1993Debris and open burning10 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTIOCANO2
26 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILCOX COMMAND
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILSON COMMAND
4 July 2005Debris and open burning35 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexJULY 4TH
27 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service73

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron County

Storms near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Combes in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCombes$15,000Microburst produced 60 mph winds that removed the roof from an old outbuilding roof, removed a new tin roof from an outdoor shed, as well as broken numerous tree limbs from mesquite, cottonwood, sycamore, and poplar trees.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindCombes$10,000The squall line that originally developed in Starr and Zapata County weakened a bit over western and central Hidalgo County, still producing wind gusts up to 53 mph. The central part of the line re-intensified over eastern Hidalgo County, and as it reached Cameron County began producing several reports of wind damage as well as a peak wind gust to 74 mph at Valley International Airport in Harlingen (815 AM CST). Additional damage reports received included:||*Multiple trees down between Harlingen and Combes on US Highway 77/Interstate 69E (815 AM CST)||Reports were received from ASOS and Law Enforcement.
July 2024Tornado (EFU)Combes-City of Combes shared a picture of a landspout northeast of Woods Road just before 3 PM CDT. Radar estimated time and location.
November 2013Heavy RainCombes-More than 5 inches of rain fell across portions of Harlingen during a 5 hour period causing localized flooding of low lying and poor drainage spots. Local law enforcement reported 5 to 6 inches of water in Primera and noted that water was approaching homes of residents.
May 2007Flash FloodCombes-Texas DPS reported water covering U.S. Highway 77 in Combes.
August 2005Tornado (F0)Combes-no account filed
April 1999Tornado (F0)Combes-no account filed

Every storm 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
Combes Colonia0.6 miles13
Eggers Colonia1.2 miles13
Los Ranchitos Colonia1.8 miles13
Bonnaville Terrace Colonia1.8 miles13
Avondale1.9 miles13
Lasana1.9 miles11
Primera2.0 miles13
Lasana Colonia2.1 miles11

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 CombesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970551The 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 1333181. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.