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Rancho Banquete, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Corpus Christi West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78380. The Survey maps it on the Banquete quadrangle. 459 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 92 feet above sea level.

Rancho Banquete within Nueces County

Population over time

3 figures

Rancho Banquete fell from 469 to 459 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
2000469
2010424-45 (-10%)
2020459+35 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys

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

15 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Rancho Banquete between 2003 and 2011, burning about 677 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
8 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4710 CINDY
4 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHY44 @ CR 83 A
8 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHY 44 @ CR 83
22 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM66 @ CR44
12 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBANQUETE CREEK @666
11 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM1833
29 June 2011Smoking500 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFOUR SIX FIRE
14 June 2011Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWAR BONNET1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nueces 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
Banquete2.0 miles8
Agua Dulce4.4 miles8
Rabb4.5 miles8
Spring Gardens5.9 miles13
Bluntzer6.6 miles8
Lost Creek7.8 miles9
North San Pedro8.0 miles13
San Pedro8.4 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 Rancho BanqueteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977765The 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 1852756. 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.