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Santa Fe, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Texas City-League City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77510. The Survey maps it on the Dickinson quadrangle. 12,735 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Santa Fe within Galveston County

On record in Santa Fe

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Santa Fe grew from 12,222 to 12,735 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
201012,222
202012,735+513 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

What the histories say of this town

128,993 words

1 chapter about Santa Fe from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
Narrative of the Texan Santa Fé Expedition, Comprising a Description ONarrative of the Texan Santa Fé Expedition, Comprising a Description of a Tour Through Texas, and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Caygüa Hunting-grounds, with an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Indians, and Final Capture of the Texans, and Their March, As Prisoners, to the City of Mexico (1844)128,993 words in 9 parts

Fires near this place

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Santa Fe between 2004 and 2019, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
18 June 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service106 BLUE SKIES GRASS FIRE
15 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9741 HIGHWAY 6 FIRE
6 May 2019Smoking3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2004 SOUTH
18 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7555 FM 2004 FIRE
16 April 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8400 FM 2004
30 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 66
16 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLIMPBASE/FM2004
21 February 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10100 HWY 6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Galveston County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Santa Fe: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Southwest Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Galveston County

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santa Fe in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2013: 7 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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
November 2003Tornado (F0)Santa Fe$100,000Tornado touched down in Santa Fe along 4th Street and FM 1764.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindSanta Fe$50,00049 railroad cars blown off tracks by high winds.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindSanta Fe$40,000Numerous fences and trees down in Bay Colony.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSanta Fe$30,000A building under construction sustained a damaged roof, twisted rafters and a collapsed frame. Numerous trees and fences were blown down.
April 2006HailSanta Fe$25,000Golfball size hail.
July 2007Tornado (EF0)Santa Fe$15,000An EF-0 tornado produced minor damage to a small home and garage. There was also minor shingle damage to a residence across the street.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindSanta Fe$15,000Trees down.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindSanta Fe$11,00070 foot tall oak tree down.
April 2006HailSanta Fe$8,000Golfball size hail.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindSanta Fe$7,000Tree limbs down.
May 2006Tornado (F0)Santa Fe$7,000Tornado damaged a home porch.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindSanta Fe$3,000Trees blown down.
May 2006HailSanta Fe$3,000Penny size hail.
June 2004Flash FloodSanta Fe$3,000Intersection of FM 1764 and Avenue F impassable due to street flooding.
February 1998HailSanta Fe$3,000no account filed
March 2008HailSanta Fe-Nickel size hail was reported in the town of Santa Fe.
May 2007Funnel CloudSanta Fe-Two funnel clouds were sighted on County Road 168.
July 2013Funnel CloudSanta Fe-no account filed
May 2007HailSanta Fe-no account filed
June 1994HailSanta Fe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Galveston 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
Arcadia0.8 miles17
Crescent Ranch Estates2.9 miles15
Algoa3.8 miles15
Hitchcock5.2 miles15
Dickinson6.4 miles17
La Marque7.2 miles15
Brittany Bay8.0 miles17
Texas City Terminal Junction8.1 miles15

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 FeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977059The 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 1351043. 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.

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.