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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.

Palm Valley within Cameron County

Population over time

3 figures

Palm 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,298
20101,304+6 (+0%)
20201,413+109 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

85 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
18 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePRIMERA COMMAND
13 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILCOX COMMAND
1 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePALOMA BLANCA COMMAND
3 August 1993Debris and open burning10 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTIOCANO2
26 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILCOX COMMAND
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILSON COMMAND
4 July 2005Debris and open burning35 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexJULY 4TH
27 July 2010Natural1.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeCANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron 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
Las Palmas Colonia0.7 miles13
Juarez Colonia1.2 miles13
Fred Adams Colonia1.4 miles13
Stuart Place1.6 miles13
Los Ranchitos Colonia1.6 miles13
Primera1.7 miles13
Avondale2.6 miles13
Tierra Bonita Number 3 Colonia2.9 miles13

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 ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2335775The 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.