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Villa Pancho, Texas

16 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 78521. The Survey maps it on the East Brownsville quadrangle. 467 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Villa Pancho within Cameron County

Population over time

2 figures

Villa Pancho fell from 788 to 467 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
2010788
2020467-321 (-41%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

115 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Villa Pancho between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,363 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism32
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
10 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexLEECH
6 August 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexALFREDO
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
27 August 1998Debris and open burning10 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeJERONIMO 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Villa Pancho: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Chromium, Manganese, Strontium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite. 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
Brownsville PlantManganeseProducer
C E Minerals Chrome PlantChromium, Manganese, Strontium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Centex Cement Corporation OperationClayProducer
Oglebay Norton Fluorspar PlantFluorine-FluoriteProducer

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
Villa Pancho Colonia0.2 miles16
Dockberry Estates Colonia0.4 miles16
Jaime Lake Colonia0.4 miles16
Cielito Lindo Colonia0.7 miles16
Coronado Colonia0.7 miles16
21 Subdivision Colonia0.8 miles16
Los Cuates South Colonia0.9 miles16
Angel Haven Colonia1.4 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 Villa PanchoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972780The 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 1852778. 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.