Santa Monica, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the San Perlita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78569. The Survey maps it on the Paso Real quadrangle. 86 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresSanta Monica grew from 78 to 86 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 78 | |
| 2010 | 83 | +5 (+6%) |
| 2020 | 86 | +3 (+4%) |
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.
- 1933 USGS Paso Real quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Paso Real quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Santa Monica between 2002 and 2020, burning about 31 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | DENT |
| 25 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1018 GRASS FIRE |
| 26 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 11 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH /GRASS MIXTURE FIRE |
| 25 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 31 January 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | VIEJO BV7 |
| 25 January 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | ORPHANAGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santa Monica in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santa Monica | $10,000 | Widespread wind and hail (0.50) damage to crops countywide with numerous roads and streets flooded. Rainfall totals of two to six inches were reported. Near Santa Monica, power poles were blown down, palm trees were topped, a barn was destroyed, and several autos were washed into a ditch. |
| April 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Santa Monica | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Flash Flood | Santa Monica | - | Torrential and quick hitting rainfall associated with persistent feeder bands around the middle core of Tropical Storm Hermine left widespread farm/field flooding across extreme northeast Cameron County from late night into the pre dawn hours of September 7th. Bias corrected radar estimates, combined with an observed report of 7.73 inches 9.4 miles northeast of Rio Hondo, indicated 6 to 8 inches fell in the area on both sides of the northeast Cameron/southeast Willacy County line. With most of the fields plowed over, damage from the flooding may have been minimal. However, high standing water was discovered at the edge of FM 507 just in Willacy County line 12 to 15 hours after the worst of the rains had fallen, indicating a brief period of true flash flooding was likely covering some of the Farm to Market Roads, and a number of unimproved County Roads. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Porfirio | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Los Coyotes | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Willamar | 6.7 miles | 9 | |
| San Perlita | 10.0 miles | 12 | |
| Hugh Terry Colonia | 10.4 miles | 13 | |
| S and C Colonia | 10.8 miles | 13 | |
| Sebastian | 10.9 miles | 13 | |
| Lyford South Colonia | 11.2 miles | 9 |
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 Monica | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q976603 | 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 1346660. 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.
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.






