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Garceno, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Roma-Los Saenz census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78584. It stands on Arroyo Grande. The Survey maps it on the Roma-Los Saenz East quadrangle. 440 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 194 feet above sea level.

Garceno within Starr County

Population over time

3 figures

Garceno fell from 1,438 to 440 between 2000 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
20001,438
2010420-1,018 (-71%)
2020440+20 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 9 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

908 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 908 fires within 5 miles of Garceno between 2002 and 2020, burning about 4,452 acres in total. None started naturally. 29 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/undetermined690
Debris and open burning178
Arson/incendiarism29
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAZAN AVE.
7 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6 N SAN JULIAN RD.
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOCKER RD.
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCINDY'S AVE.
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVICTOR LN.
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOLPHIN ST.
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAZAN RD.
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUNIZ CIR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Starr County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Garceno: 2 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
Fidel Guerra Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Guerra PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Starr County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garceno in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2021: 2 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
June 2021Flash FloodGarceno-The Starr County Sheriff's Office reported that San Juan Drive in Garceno, west of Rio Grande City, was flooded with at least 2 feet of water, causing traffic to divert away from the area.
May 2015Flash FloodGarceno-Starr County Sheriffs Office reported that Garceno Loop near Highway 83 was closed due to high water covering the roadway.

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
La Chaparosa Colonia0.7 miles9
San Juan Colonia0.7 miles9
Rosita0.8 miles9
Hilltop Colonia0.9 miles9
Miguel Barrera Colonia1.0 miles9
La Rosita1.1 miles9
Los Ebanos Number 2 Colonia1.1 miles9
Tierra Dorada Colonia1.1 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 GarcenoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982148The 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 1336371. 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.

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.