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.
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
- Christensen Castlelisted 2025
Population over time
2 figuresSanta 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 12,222 | |
| 2020 | 12,735 | +513 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1929 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:24000
- 1932 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Angleton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:24000
What the histories say of this town
128,993 words1 chapter about Santa Fe from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.
| Chapter | From | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Narrative of the Texan Santa Fé Expedition, Comprising a Description O | Narrative 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 2004Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 106 BLUE SKIES GRASS FIRE |
| 15 June 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 9741 HIGHWAY 6 FIRE |
| 6 May 2019 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2004 SOUTH |
| 18 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 7555 FM 2004 FIRE |
| 16 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 8400 FM 2004 |
| 30 March 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 66 |
| 16 March 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BLIMPBASE/FM2004 |
| 21 February 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 10100 HWY 6 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Sand Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
20 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Santa Fe | $100,000 | Tornado touched down in Santa Fe along 4th Street and FM 1764. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santa Fe | $50,000 | 49 railroad cars blown off tracks by high winds. |
| March 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santa Fe | $40,000 | Numerous fences and trees down in Bay Colony. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santa Fe | $30,000 | A building under construction sustained a damaged roof, twisted rafters and a collapsed frame. Numerous trees and fences were blown down. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Santa Fe | $25,000 | Golfball size hail. |
| July 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Santa Fe | $15,000 | An 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santa Fe | $15,000 | Trees down. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santa Fe | $11,000 | 70 foot tall oak tree down. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Santa Fe | $8,000 | Golfball size hail. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santa Fe | $7,000 | Tree limbs down. |
| May 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Santa Fe | $7,000 | Tornado damaged a home porch. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santa Fe | $3,000 | Trees blown down. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Santa Fe | $3,000 | Penny size hail. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Santa Fe | $3,000 | Intersection of FM 1764 and Avenue F impassable due to street flooding. |
| February 1998 | Hail | Santa Fe | $3,000 | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Santa Fe | - | Nickel size hail was reported in the town of Santa Fe. |
| May 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Santa Fe | - | Two funnel clouds were sighted on County Road 168. |
| July 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Santa Fe | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Santa Fe | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Santa Fe | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arcadia | 0.8 miles | 17 | |
| Crescent Ranch Estates | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Algoa | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Hitchcock | 5.2 miles | 15 | |
| Dickinson | 6.4 miles | 17 | |
| La Marque | 7.2 miles | 15 | |
| Brittany Bay | 8.0 miles | 17 | |
| Texas City Terminal Junction | 8.1 miles | 15 |
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 Fe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q977059 | 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 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.








