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Olivarez, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Edcouch-Elsa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78599. The Survey maps it on the Mercedes quadrangle. 4,248 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 66 feet above sea level.

Olivarez within Hidalgo County

Population over time

2 figures

Olivarez grew from 3,827 to 4,248 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
20103,827
20204,248+421 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

53 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Olivarez between 2003 and 2017, burning about 468 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4 WEST FIRE
22 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDIAMOND FIRE
3 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeJOSE PORTILLO
20 August 2009Misuse of fire by a minor9.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceELSA FIRE
11 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
8 July 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge Complex12 MILE
21 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRUBBERISH FIRE
19 July 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 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.

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 OlivarezAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981577The 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 1852748. 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.