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.
Population over time
2 figuresVilla 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 788 | |
| 2020 | 467 | -321 (-41%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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 East Brownsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1936 USGS East Brownsville quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS East Brownsville quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Fort Brown quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
115 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 42 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 32 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Texas Refuge Complex | LEECH |
| 6 August 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | ALFREDO |
| 4 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 120 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | SABAL PALMS N |
| 31 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | EARLY 2 |
| 27 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | JERONIMO 2 |
| 25 August 2004 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | SALINAS |
| 24 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | SABAL PALM |
| 24 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | EARLY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brownsville Plant | Manganese | Producer | ||
| C E Minerals Chrome Plant | Chromium, Manganese, Strontium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | ||
| Centex Cement Corporation Operation | Clay | Producer | ||
| Oglebay Norton Fluorspar Plant | Fluorine-Fluorite | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Villa Pancho Colonia | 0.2 miles | 16 | |
| Dockberry Estates Colonia | 0.4 miles | 16 | |
| Jaime Lake Colonia | 0.4 miles | 16 | |
| Cielito Lindo Colonia | 0.7 miles | 16 | |
| Coronado Colonia | 0.7 miles | 16 | |
| 21 Subdivision Colonia | 0.8 miles | 16 | |
| Los Cuates South Colonia | 0.9 miles | 16 | |
| Angel Haven Colonia | 1.4 miles | 11 |
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 Pancho | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972780 | 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 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.







