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Ranchos Penitas West, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo North-Webb census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78045. The Survey maps it on the Cuervo Creek quadrangle. 466 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 495 feet above sea level.

Ranchos Penitas West within Webb County

Population over time

3 figures

Ranchos Penitas West fell from 520 to 466 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
2000520
2010573+53 (+10%)
2020466-107 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ranchos Penitas West in 2017, burning about 5 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
Debris and open burning2

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
2 March 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 1472
17 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSULFER MINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webb County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Ranchos Penitas West: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Tasita MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Garcia Sand and Gravel Patino PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Leyendecker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Patino PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Reuthinger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Webb 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
Los Minerales Colonia1.6 miles8
Antonio Santos Colonia1.6 miles8
Islitas2.3 miles9
Los Corralitos Colonia3.6 miles8
Orvil7.0 miles10
Minera8.5 miles8
Santo Tomas8.9 miles8
Nye9.6 miles10

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 Ranchos Penitas WestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982062The 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 1852758. 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.