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Muniz, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Edinburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78542. The Survey maps it on the La Blanca quadrangle. 1,593 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 89 feet above sea level.

Muniz within Hidalgo County

Population over time

2 figures

Muniz grew from 1,370 to 1,593 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
20101,370
20201,593+223 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

670 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 670 fires within 5 miles of Muniz between 2003 and 2018, burning about 1,062 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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 burning539
Missing data/not specified/undetermined99
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
7 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09-671
5 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo 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
Muniz Colonia0.4 miles10
Isaacs Colonia0.4 miles10
Alberta Acres Colonia1.1 miles16
Owassa Rd-Tower Rd Colonia1.2 miles16
Murillo Colonia1.3 miles10
El Charro Number 2 Colonia1.3 miles16
L J Number 1 Colonia1.6 miles16
Morningside Estates Colonia1.7 miles10

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 MunizAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q976880The 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 1852740. 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.