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Rio Bravo, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo South-El Cenizo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78046. The Survey maps it on the O'Keefe Lake quadrangle. 4,450 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 449 feet above sea level.

Rio Bravo within Webb County

Population over time

2 figures

Rio Bravo fell from 4,794 to 4,450 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
20104,794
20204,450-344 (-7%)

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

96 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Rio Bravo between 2010 and 2020, burning about 298 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning31
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3

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
27 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
22 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
6 August 2015Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
5 August 2012Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
31 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webb County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rio Bravo: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Pinto Valley No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Sand and Gravel 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
Rio Bravo Colonia0.1 miles8
Rio Bravo Annex Colonia0.9 miles8
El Cenizo1.1 miles8
El Cenizo Colonia Number 12.5 miles7
One River Place Colonia2.7 miles9
La Presa Colonia3.3 miles9
La Presa3.4 miles9
Old Milwaukee West Colonia9.0 miles9

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 Rio BravoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977978The 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 1388239. 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.