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Rancho Chico, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sinton-Odem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78387. The Survey maps it on the Sinton East quadrangle. 387 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 49 feet above sea level.

Rancho Chico within San Patricio County

Population over time

3 figures

Rancho Chico grew from 309 to 387 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
2000309
2010396+87 (+28%)
2020387-9 (-2%)

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

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Rancho Chico between 2008 and 2020, burning about 690 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use400 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOTTON
19 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest Service187
10 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresTexas A & M Forest Service138
28 January 2008Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 January 2018Misuse of fire by a minor25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS AND STRUCTURE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Patricio 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.

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 ChicoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970023The 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 1852757. 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.