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Santa Clara, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Southwest Guadalupe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78155. It stands on Buzzard Creek. The Survey maps it on the McQueeney quadrangle. 778 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Santa Clara within Guadalupe County

Population over time

3 figures

Santa Clara fell from 889 to 778 between 2000 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
2000889
2010725-164 (-18%)
2020778+53 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

81 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Santa Clara between 2006 and 2015, burning about 870 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined44
Equipment and vehicle use17
Debris and open burning13
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOWER SEGUIN
26 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHWAB ROAD
22 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSUNFIRE
20 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePARTNERSHIP FIRE
2 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceIH10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Santa Clara: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Balcones PitClayProducerSedimentary
Cibolo Ck Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Guadalupe 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
Zuehl3.0 miles10
New Berlin3.5 miles9
Marion4.2 miles14
Muehlsville4.9 miles14
Sweet Home5.7 miles9
Hilda Siding5.9 miles14
Haeckerville6.1 miles14
Nolte6.5 miles14

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 Santa ClaraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973850The 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 1379028. 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.