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Villa del Sol, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Rio Hondo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78586. The Survey maps it on the Rio Hondo quadrangle. 153 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Villa del Sol within Cameron County

Population over time

2 figures

Villa del Sol fell from 175 to 153 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
2010175
2020153-22 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

41 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Villa del Sol between 1996 and 2020, burning about 429 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresLaguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge803 & KEMPNER
3 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
29 August 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE VASQUEZ RD
11 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexREYNOLDS
1 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge Complex345
8 June 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 June 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
22 June 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Villa del Sol Colonia0.0 miles13
Lantana0.3 miles13
Port Harlingen1.5 miles13
Lozano1.8 miles13
Arroyo Colorado Estates Colonia1.8 miles13
Bullis Addition Colonia2.1 miles13
Tatum Addition Colonia2.6 miles13
West Addition Colonia2.7 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 Villa del SolAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982105The 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 1852777. 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.