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Villa Verde, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Southeast Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78596. The Survey maps it on the Mercedes quadrangle. 711 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 75 feet above sea level.

Villa Verde within Hidalgo County

Population over time

2 figures

Villa Verde fell from 874 to 711 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
2010874
2020711-163 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

110 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Villa Verde between 1997 and 2018, burning about 1,366 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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 burning70
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
22 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeLA COMA 2
22 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDIAMOND FIRE
21 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined94 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTAORMINA
12 September 2011Debris and open burning13 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-675
9 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge1015
7 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH FIRE
31 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeLA COMA
31 August 2010Debris and open burning4.6 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeVICTORIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo 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 Verde Colonia0.1 miles16
Ramosville Colonia0.4 miles16
Wildwood Forest Colonia0.6 miles16
Bellaire Colonia0.6 miles16
Citrus Retreat Colonia0.7 miles16
Encino Number 1 Colonia0.8 miles10
Angela Colonia1.0 miles10
Westgate Estates Colonia1.1 miles16

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 VerdeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981160The 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 1852779. 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.