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El Cenizo, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo South-El Cenizo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78046. The Survey maps it on the O'Keefe Lake quadrangle. 2,540 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 449 feet above sea level.

El Cenizo within Webb County

Population over time

2 figures

El Cenizo fell from 3,273 to 2,540 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
20103,273
20202,540-733 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

92 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of El Cenizo between 2010 and 2020, burning about 292 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning30
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
27 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
22 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
6 August 2015Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
5 August 2012Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
31 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webb County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of El Cenizo: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pinto Valley No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Webb 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
Rio Bravo Annex Colonia0.8 miles8
Rio Bravo1.1 miles8
Rio Bravo Colonia1.1 miles8
El Cenizo Colonia Number 11.5 miles7
One River Place Colonia3.6 miles9
La Presa Colonia4.4 miles9
La Presa4.4 miles9
Old Milwaukee West Colonia10.0 miles9

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 El CenizoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q971105The 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 1377764. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.