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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.

Santa Monica within Willacy County

Population over time

3 figures

Santa 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.

YearPeople Change
200078
201083+5 (+6%)
202086+3 (+4%)

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

7 since 2002

Regional 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1
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
27 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexDENT
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1018 GRASS FIRE
26 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH /GRASS MIXTURE FIRE
25 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 January 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexVIEJO BV7
25 January 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexORPHANAGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Willacy County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1995Thunderstorm WindSanta Monica$10,000Widespread 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 1999Tornado (F0)Santa Monica$5,000no account filed
September 2010Flash FloodSanta 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.

Every storm recorded in Willacy 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
Porfirio3.0 miles9
Los Coyotes5.0 miles9
Willamar6.7 miles9
San Perlita10.0 miles12
Hugh Terry Colonia10.4 miles13
S and C Colonia10.8 miles13
Sebastian10.9 miles13
Lyford South Colonia11.2 miles9

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 MonicaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q976603The 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.