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West Sharyland, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Mission census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78573. The Survey maps it on the Alton quadrangle. 2,004 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 171 feet above sea level.

West Sharyland within Hidalgo County

Population over time

2 figures

West Sharyland fell from 2,309 to 2,004 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
20102,309
20202,004-305 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

298 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of West Sharyland between 2002 and 2019, burning about 1,360 acres in total. None started naturally. 52 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined123
Debris and open burning112
Arson/incendiarism52
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexLUNCH
7 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexBENTSEN PILE
28 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexLA HOMA RD
28 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexDOFFING
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRYAN RD FIRE
11 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge Complex1 1/2 MILE
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMINNESOTA FIRE 5 MILE
9 August 2003Arson/incendiarism25 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexBENTSEN PALM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of West Sharyland: 6 producers, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
BleakleySand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
No. 1 Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hawkins PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
J-2 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
J-2 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche
Shower Pit & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shower QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche

Every working 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
El Sol Colonia Number 20.1 miles11
Tres Amigos Colonia0.2 miles11
Diamond 'L' Colonia0.2 miles11
Vereda Tropical Colonia0.3 miles11
Bella Vista Estates Colonia0.4 miles11
Colonia Allende0.4 miles11
Castaneda Colonia0.4 miles11
Dude Hill Number 1 Colonia0.5 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 West SharylandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975396The 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 1852783. 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.