San Pedro, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Brownsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78520. The Survey maps it on the West Brownsville quadrangle. 442 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 46 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSan Pedro fell from 530 to 442 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 | 530 | |
| 2020 | 442 | -88 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1930 USGS West Brownsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1936 USGS West Brownsville quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS West Brownsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
100 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of San Pedro between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,451 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 | 43 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RANCHITO2 |
| 3 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RANCHITO E |
| 3 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RANCHITO W |
| 6 August 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | LA ENCANTADA |
| 31 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | 1421 |
| 29 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 29 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 29 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | GARZACAUAZ |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Pedro Colonia | 0.1 miles | 11 | |
| Villa Cavazos Colonia | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Villa Cavazos | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| Cavazos | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| Villa Nueva | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Villa Nueva Colonia | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Ismael Montalvo Colonia Number 1 | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Ismael Montalvo Colonia Number 2 | 3.5 miles | 13 |
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 Pedro | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982285 | 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 1375976. 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.






