BlockVilla Cavazos, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Brownsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78520. The Survey maps it on the Olmito quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1930 USGS Barreda quadrangle1:24000
- 1936 USGS Barreda quadrangle1:31680
- 1936 USGS Olmito quadrangle1:31680
- 1945 USGS Olmito quadrangle1:31680
- 1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Olmito quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
100 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Villa Cavazos between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,567 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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 burning | 50 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RANCHITO2 |
| 3 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RANCHITO E |
| 3 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RANCHITO W |
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | USDA |
| 2 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 6 August 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | LA ENCANTADA |
| 31 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | 1421 |
| 29 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Villa Cavazos in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2024: 1 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2024 | Flash Flood | Villa Cavazos | $10,000 | Torrential rainfall, as much as 5.48 inches of rain having fallen in 90 minutes in Rancho Viejo, left pockets of flash flooding during the late afternoon between San Pedro and Olmito, including Rancho Viejo. Reports of high water into structures and vehicle rescues were reported during and after the peak of the downpour. Vehicle rescues were reported in Olmito and near Rancho Viejo; water was reportedly entering homes on Melva Court in San Pedro, and Burr Oak Loop and Agave avenue just south of IH-169 in east Olmito. ||Damage values estimated based on the reports received. || Damage information was unknown at the time of this writing. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Villa Cavazos | - | Member of the public shared a picture of hail with an estimated size of 2 inches from the corner of FM1421 and FM1732 in Cameron County. Time estimated by radar. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cavazos | 0.0 miles | 15 | |
| Villa Cavazos Colonia | 0.1 miles | 15 | |
| Ismael Montalvo Colonia Number 1 | 1.0 miles | 13 | |
| Ismael Montalvo Colonia Number 2 | 1.1 miles | 13 | |
| Esparza Colonia Number 1 | 1.1 miles | 13 | |
| Esparza Colonia Number 2 | 1.2 miles | 13 | |
| Ranchito | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| Encantada Colonia | 1.3 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.
| Wikidata item Q122542666 | 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 1376590. 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.