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.
Population over time
3 figuresRanchos 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 520 | |
| 2010 | 573 | +53 (+10%) |
| 2020 | 466 | -107 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Islitas quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Cuervo Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2017Regional 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 burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 1472 |
| 17 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | SULFER MINE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tasita Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Garcia Sand and Gravel Patino Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Leyendecker Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| Patino Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| Reuthinger Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Minerales Colonia | 1.6 miles | 8 | |
| Antonio Santos Colonia | 1.6 miles | 8 | |
| Islitas | 2.3 miles | 9 | |
| Los Corralitos Colonia | 3.6 miles | 8 | |
| Orvil | 7.0 miles | 10 | |
| Minera | 8.5 miles | 8 | |
| Santo Tomas | 8.9 miles | 8 | |
| Nye | 9.6 miles | 10 |
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 West | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982062 | 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 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.



