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Delmita, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Rio Grande City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78536. The Survey maps it on the San Isidro quadrangle. 186 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 272 feet above sea level.

Delmita within Starr County

Population over time

2 figures

Delmita fell from 216 to 186 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
2010216
2020186-30 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Delmita between 2006 and 2019, burning about 3,973 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
15 September 2017Debris and open burning100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2294 RD.
6 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeSAN ISIDRO
3 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1,000 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexCASAS RANCH
11 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeDELMITA
21 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use120 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAT CLAW RANCH FIRE
9 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUT 1017 AND 681
9 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLA REFORMA FIRE
10 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined530 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexHIDALGO COUNTY LINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Starr County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delmita in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 flash flood. 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
March 2025Flash FloodDelmita-Two to three feet of water and flooding was reported on FM 755 in northeast Starr County near Santa Elena.

Every storm recorded in Starr 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
El Centro1.1 miles11
Arkansas City1.7 miles11
La Reforma2.1 miles11
Gloria Colonia2.5 miles11
San Isidro3.3 miles11
Old Santa Elena4.5 miles11
La Gloria6.4 miles10
Santa Elena6.8 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 DelmitaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970669The 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 1378207. 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.