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Val Verde Park, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Del Rio census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78840. The Survey maps it on the Del Rio SE quadrangle. 2,332 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Val Verde Park within Val Verde County

Population over time

2 figures

Val Verde Park fell from 2,384 to 2,332 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
20102,384
20202,332-52 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Val Verde Park between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,294 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/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,090 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOODY
13 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,200 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4 SILO
9 March 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 March 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 January 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePASIANO #8
3 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 January 2008Smokingunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Val Verde 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
Val Verde Park Number 2 Colonia0.2 miles7
Val Verde Park Colonia0.4 miles7
Del Rio3.5 miles7
Johnstone3.9 miles7
Owens Addition Number 2 Colonia5.2 miles7
Owens Addition Number 1 Colonia5.2 miles7
Rio Bravo Colonia5.3 miles7
Payment Colonia5.3 miles7

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 Val Verde ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982103The 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 1852776. 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.