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Palmhurst, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Mission census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78573. The Survey maps it on the Alton quadrangle. 2,601 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 161 feet above sea level.

Palmhurst within Hidalgo County

Population over time

2 figures

Palmhurst fell from 2,607 to 2,601 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
20102,607
20202,601-6 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

288 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 288 fires within 5 miles of Palmhurst between 2002 and 2020, burning about 1,474 acres in total. None started naturally. 52 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/undetermined120
Debris and open burning103
Arson/incendiarism52
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexLUNCH
7 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexBENTSEN PILE
28 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexLA HOMA RD
28 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexDOFFING
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRYAN RD FIRE
11 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge Complex1 1/2 MILE
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMINNESOTA FIRE 5 MILE
9 August 2003Arson/incendiarism25 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexBENTSEN PALM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Palmhurst: 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
BleakleySand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Hawkins PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
J-2 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
J-2 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche

Every working recorded in Hidalgo County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palmhurst in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2017: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2010Flash FloodPalmhurst$100,000Rainfall of more than 4 inches in a little more than an hour produced flash flooding from Mission to McAllen between 730 and 830 PM. Local television news reported one home with water flooding the ground floor, and vehicles submerged, in Mission, from a combination of poor drainage and the blinding rains. Floodwaters covered a driveway, reaching the garage of a home on Highland Park Ave. in Mission. State Road 107 and Farm to Market 495 each were closed with up to 2 feet of water covering them. Flooding on the frontage road of Expressway 83 between 23rd Avenue and Ware Road produced water up to the windshields of dozens of cars in McAllen. Rainfall reached 2.46 inches in McAllen/Miller Airport, 3.40 inches at the nearby cooperative station, 3.74 inches in Mission, and 4.08 inches just northeast of Mission, all falling in a little more than an hour. The aftermath of the frontage road flooding was documented by video posted on YouTube. View the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6viYuz8VBW8 .
August 2015Thunderstorm WindPalmhurst$2,000Mission Police Department reported power lines and large tree branches down due to strong winds at the intersection of Inspiration and FM 495 and in the 1400 block of Doherty.
March 2015HailPalmhurst$1,500Half dollar to ping pong ball size hail reported near Palmhurst, and just east at the intersection of Stewart and 3 Mile Line (Buddy Owens). Video from nearby locations indicated at least one cracked vehicle windshield; other photos showed mildly dented vehicles as well as some stripping of siding from one home.
April 2017HailPalmhurst-Public reported three quarter of an inch hail that lasted for 1 minute.

Every storm 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
Elida Colonia0.3 miles11
North Country Estates Colonia0.4 miles11
Linda Vista Estates Colonia0.6 miles11
James Allen Colonia0.6 miles11
Monica Acres Colonia0.6 miles11
Jessan Colonia0.6 miles11
Tangerine Estates Colonia0.7 miles11
Jenna Estates Colonia0.7 miles11

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 PalmhurstAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981487The 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 1378825. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.