San Juan, Texas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the McAllen-Pharr census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78589. The Survey maps it on the Pharr quadrangle. 35,294 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 105 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSan Juan grew from 33,856 to 35,294 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 33,856 | |
| 2020 | 35,294 | +1,438 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 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.
- 1914 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:48000
- 1914 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:62500
- 1916 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Pharr quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
986 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 986 fires within 5 miles of San Juan between 1996 and 2018, burning about 1,336 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning | 913 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 37 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRASH FIRE |
| 8 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 10-728 |
| 7 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 09-671 |
| 5 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Juan in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Juan | $20,000 | Several citizens reported several large trees and traffic signs down along with stop signs pulled out of the ground along Highway 495 and Sugar Road. Timing estimated by radar. |
| October 2021 | Flood | San Juan | - | Picture received from the public of portions of the I-2 Frontage Road under several inches of water. Exact depth unknown at this time. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | San Juan | - | Public reported numerous roadways covered in water ranging from 7 inches to 3 feet across San Juan and Alamo, mainly south of Expressway U.S. 83. |
| April 2012 | Hail | San Juan | - | Trained Skywarn spotter reported quarter size hail in Pharr at the intersection of Hall Acres Road and Cage Boulevard. |
| June 2010 | Hail | San Juan | - | A prolonged intense updraft was nearly stationary in the Donna-Alamo-San Juan area for nearly an hour, and at least two known quarter sized hail reports were received by the NWS office in Brownsville. The first occurred at 357 PM CST along Business Highway 83 in San Juan, reported by a trained spotter, and a second occurred in Alamo at around 410 PM CST, reported by the general public. Hail of equal of larger size may have continued beyond this time, but no further data were available as of this writing. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Juan | - | A local broadcast meteorologist reported a wind gust of 62 miles per hour during a strong pulse thunderstorm that affected Pharr. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lantana Colonia | 0.6 miles | 14 | |
| San Juan South Estates Colonia | 0.9 miles | 14 | |
| Sun Valley Estates Number 1 Colonia | 1.0 miles | 14 | |
| San Juan East Colonia | 1.1 miles | 14 | |
| Miller Resub Lot A Colonia | 1.1 miles | 14 | |
| L R Bell Colonia | 1.3 miles | 14 | |
| Milagro Estates Colonia | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Azteca Acres Colonia | 1.5 miles | 14 |
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 San Juan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q581862 | 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 1346393. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.









