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.
Population over time
3 figuresRancho 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 469 | |
| 2010 | 424 | -45 (-10%) |
| 2020 | 459 | +35 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveysMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Orange Grove quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Banquete quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
15 since 2003Regional 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 use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4710 CINDY |
| 4 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HY44 @ CR 83 A |
| 8 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HY 44 @ CR 83 |
| 22 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM66 @ CR44 |
| 12 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BANQUETE CREEK @666 |
| 11 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM1833 |
| 29 June 2011 | Smoking | 500 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FOUR SIX FIRE |
| 14 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WAR BONNET1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banquete | 2.0 miles | 8 | |
| Agua Dulce | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Rabb | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Spring Gardens | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Bluntzer | 6.6 miles | 8 | |
| Lost Creek | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| North San Pedro | 8.0 miles | 13 | |
| San Pedro | 8.4 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 Rancho Banquete | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q977765 | 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 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.







