Palm Valley, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Harlingen-San Benito census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78552. The Survey maps it on the La Feria quadrangle. 1,413 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 43 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresPalm Valley grew from 1,298 to 1,413 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,298 | |
| 2010 | 1,304 | +6 (+0%) |
| 2020 | 1,413 | +109 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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.
- 1929 USGS La Feria quadrangle1:24000
- 1936 USGS La Feria quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS La Feria quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS La Feria quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
85 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Palm Valley between 1993 and 2018, burning about 1,275 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 41 |
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | PRIMERA COMMAND |
| 13 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILCOX COMMAND |
| 1 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | PALOMA BLANCA COMMAND |
| 3 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | TIOCANO2 |
| 26 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILCOX COMMAND |
| 5 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WILSON COMMAND |
| 4 July 2005 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | JULY 4TH |
| 27 July 2010 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | CANE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Las Palmas Colonia | 0.7 miles | 13 | |
| Juarez Colonia | 1.2 miles | 13 | |
| Fred Adams Colonia | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Stuart Place | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| Los Ranchitos Colonia | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| Primera | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Avondale | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Tierra Bonita Number 3 Colonia | 2.9 miles | 13 |
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 Palm Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2335775 | 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 1388564. 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.








