Sarita, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Sarita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78385. The Survey maps it on the Sarita quadrangle. 205 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 36 feet above sea level.
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Population over time
2 figuresSarita fell from 238 to 205 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 | 238 | |
| 2020 | 205 | -33 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveysMatched 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.
- 1928 USGS Sarita quadrangle1:125000
- 1950 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Sarita quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Baffin Bay quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Corpus Christi quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
51 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Sarita between 2011 and 2020, burning about 1,846 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2019 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CHANDLER ROAD FIRE |
| 26 September 2019 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SARITA GRASS FIRE |
| 10 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GARCIA STREET FIRE |
| 9 August 2012 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | EXXON GATE GRASS FIRE |
| 5 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PAISTLE GATE FIRE |
| 3 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | REST AREA GRASS FIRE |
| 13 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | KENEDY COUNTY CONTROL BURN |
| 14 July 2011 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | US 77 KENEDY/KLEBERG FIRE |
Storms near this place
19 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sarita in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sarita | $1,000 | Extensive tree damage. |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sarita | $500 | no account filed |
| November 2025 | Hail | Sarita | - | Law enforcement reported golf ball sized hail in Sarita, TX. |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sarita | - | The Meteorologist-in-Charge of the NWS office in Brownsville witnessed a downburst/microburst about one mile east of U.S. Highway 77 approximately 10 miles south of Sarita. The microburst produced a tremendous amount of dust; winds were estimated the winds to be near 60 mph. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Sarita | - | A tornado was reported on the Kenedy Ranch, approximately 3 miles south of Rivera (Kleberg County). This storm would later produce a damaging tornado near Kingsville. The National Weather Service Office in Corpus Christi relayed the report to from the general public. |
| September 2009 | Heavy Rain | Sarita | - | A CO-OP observer reported 2.41 inches of rain fell during a thunderstorm which moved through the Sarita area during the early afternoon Sunday September 11th. |
| October 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sarita | - | A Texas Coastal and Ocean Observing Network site at Baffin Bay, just a few miles northeast of Kenedy County, recorded wind gusts up to 65 mile per hour when line of strong to severe thunderstorms rapidly developed in western Kenedy County and raced east. Wind gusts at or above 60 mph continued until 1236 PM. Note: Wind gust value is used as a proxy to estimated value on the nearby promontory of northeast Kenedy County. |
| May 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Sarita | - | Tornado was reported by the U.S. Border Patrol near Armstrong. The tornado touched down over open ranch land and produced no damage. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Sarita | - | Large hail was reported by a CO-OP observer. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Sarita | - | Large hail was reported by the general public. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sarita | - | Thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was reported by a NWS cooperative observer east of Sarita. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sarita | - | A wind gust of 56 knots (65 mph) was estimated by Border Patrol officials located at the Border Patrol checkpoint on U.S. Highway 77, 10 miles south of Sarita. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sarita | - | Border patrol checkpoint located at Sarita estimated 75 mph winds associated with a squall line or a line echo wave pattern thunderstorm complex. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Sarita | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Sarita | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Sarita | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Sarita | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Sarita | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Sarita | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Parra Landing | 8.2 miles | 12 | |
| Turcotte | 14.8 miles | 8 | |
| Armstrong | 20.5 miles | 11 | |
| Yarborough | 21.9 miles | 11 | |
| Norias | 29.8 miles | 11 | |
| Julian | 30.7 miles | 11 | |
| Rudolph | 37.0 miles | 13 |
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 Sarita | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q975090 | 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 1346706. 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.







