BlockHeidelberg, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Southeast Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78570. The Survey maps it on the Mercedes quadrangle. 1,507 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHeidelberg fell from 1,725 to 1,507 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,725 | |
| 2020 | 1,507 | -218 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Mercedes quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Mercedes quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
72 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Heidelberg between 1993 and 2016, burning about 1,516 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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 burning | 32 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | TIOCANO2 |
| 24 August 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | CORNER |
| 23 August 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | LA FERIA |
| 23 August 2004 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | 9 MILE |
| 20 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | OTHA 2 |
| 8 July 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | 12 MILE |
| 23 July 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | NSUGAR |
| 20 July 1997 | Debris and open burning | 435 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | TIOCANO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Rebel Heights Colonia Number 1 | 0.5 miles | 10 | |
| Old Rebel Heights Colonia Number 2 | 0.6 miles | 10 | |
| Elizabeth Colonia | 0.9 miles | 10 | |
| Capisallo Park Colonia | 1.2 miles | 10 | |
| High Land Colonia | 1.5 miles | 10 | |
| Olympic Colonia | 1.5 miles | 10 | |
| Old Rebel Field Colonia | 1.6 miles | 10 | |
| Valle de Palmas Number 1 Colonia | 2.0 miles | 10 |
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 Heidelberg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982594 | The 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 1337561. 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.