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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.

San Juan within Hidalgo County

Population over time

2 figures

San 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.

YearPeople Change
201033,856
202035,294+1,438 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

986 since 1996

Regional 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 burning913
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Power generation/transmission/distribution20
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH FIRE
8 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10-728
7 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09-671
5 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023Thunderstorm WindSan Juan$20,000Several 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 2021FloodSan 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 2015Flash FloodSan 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 2012HailSan Juan-Trained Skywarn spotter reported quarter size hail in Pharr at the intersection of Hall Acres Road and Cage Boulevard.
June 2010HailSan 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 2010Thunderstorm WindSan Juan-A local broadcast meteorologist reported a wind gust of 62 miles per hour during a strong pulse thunderstorm that affected Pharr.

Every storm recorded in Hidalgo 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.

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 JuanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q581862The 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.