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Ranchette Estates, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Raymondville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78580. The Survey maps it on the Raymondville quadrangle. 106 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 36 feet above sea level.

Ranchette Estates within Willacy County

Population over time

3 figures

Ranchette Estates fell from 133 to 106 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
2000133
2010152+19 (+14%)
2020106-46 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

66 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Ranchette Estates between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,848 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH/GRASS MIXTURE FIRE
13 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 September 2011Arson/incendiarism6.3 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeEAST LAKE
1 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH GRASS MIXTURE
7 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 August 2011Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 August 2009Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
29 August 2009Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Willacy 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
Ranchette Estates Colonia0.1 miles9
Sandy Colonia1.2 miles9
Raymondville Tract Number 1 Colonia1.7 miles9
Los Angeles2.2 miles9
Raymondville2.2 miles9
Colonia los Angeles2.3 miles9
Willacy Acres Colonia2.7 miles13
Benitez Colonia3.2 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 Ranchette EstatesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q956851The 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 1852753. 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.