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Ratamosa, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Harlingen-San Benito census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78593. The Survey maps it on the La Feria quadrangle. 197 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 52 feet above sea level.

Ratamosa within Cameron County

Population over time

2 figures

Ratamosa fell from 254 to 197 between 2010 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
2010254
2020197-57 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

83 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Ratamosa between 1993 and 2018, burning about 1,566 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 were 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 burning34
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
3 August 1993Debris and open burning10 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTIOCANO2
24 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeCORNER
23 August 2004Arson/incendiarism30 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeLA FERIA
23 August 2004Smoking3.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge Complex9 MILE
20 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeOTHA 2
10 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined52 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeRATLIFF
23 July 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeNSUGAR
20 July 1997Debris and open burning435 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTIOCANO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron 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
Ratamosa Colonia0.5 miles13
Rabb Road Colonia0.6 miles13
East Cantu Country Estates Colonia1.0 miles13
O'Canas Family Colonia1.1 miles13
Aurora Longoria Colonia1.2 miles13
Galpin Colonia1.4 miles13
Santa Rosa Number 6 Colonia2.1 miles13
Solis Colonia2.3 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 RatamosaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969967The 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 1852759. 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.