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Tierra Grande, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Corpus Christi census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78415. The Survey maps it on the Petronila NE quadrangle. 303 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 56 feet above sea level.

Tierra Grande within Nueces County

Population over time

3 figures

Tierra Grande fell from 362 to 303 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
2000362
2010403+41 (+11%)
2020303-100 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

21 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Tierra Grande between 2006 and 2018, burning about 92 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCGLOIN FIRE
22 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1787 FM43
14 June 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service16-112
29 May 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2268 FM 2444
21 May 2017Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE IVESTIGATION
19 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
10 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nueces 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
Petronila3.2 miles11
San Juan5.6 miles13
Violet6.3 miles13
Clarkwood6.7 miles13
Flour Bluff Junction7.9 miles12
Robstown8.2 miles13
San Pedro8.4 miles13
McNorton8.5 miles13

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 Tierra GrandeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981633The 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 1852773. 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.