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South Point, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Brownsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78521. The Survey maps it on the Southmost quadrangle. 1,014 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

South Point within Cameron County

Population over time

2 figures

South Point fell from 1,376 to 1,014 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
20101,376
20201,014-362 (-26%)

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

86 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of South Point between 1995 and 2019, burning about 2,102 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 were 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 burning34
Arson/incendiarism25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeSABAL PALMS N
31 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexEARLY 2
25 August 2004Debris and open burning5.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeSALINAS
24 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeSABAL PALM
24 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexEARLY
2 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeDRY RESACA
14 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeLOPEZ 2
11 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexLOPEZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron 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 South Point: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Centex Cement Corporation OperationClayProducer

Every working recorded in Cameron 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
Alabama-Arkansas Colonia0.2 miles11
Valle Hermosa Colonia0.4 miles11
Valle Escondido Colonia0.5 miles16
South Point Colonia0.5 miles11
Villa Pancho Colonia1.8 miles16
Cielito Lindo Colonia1.9 miles16
Villa Pancho2.0 miles16
Palm Grove2.1 miles11

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 South PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981621The 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 1852770. 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.