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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.

San Pedro within Cameron County

Population over time

2 figures

San 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.

YearPeople Change
2010530
2020442-88 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

100 since 1993

Regional 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 burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism11
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
5 September 1993Smokingunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeRANCHITO2
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeRANCHITO E
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeRANCHITO W
6 August 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeLA ENCANTADA
31 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge1421
29 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
29 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
29 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeGARZACAUAZ

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
San Pedro Colonia0.1 miles11
Villa Cavazos Colonia2.5 miles15
Villa Cavazos2.6 miles15
Cavazos2.6 miles15
Villa Nueva3.0 miles11
Villa Nueva Colonia3.3 miles11
Ismael Montalvo Colonia Number 13.3 miles13
Ismael Montalvo Colonia Number 23.5 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 San PedroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982285The 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.