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Zapata Ranch, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Sebastian census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78569. The Survey maps it on the Santa Rosa quadrangle. 87 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 39 feet above sea level.

Zapata Ranch within Willacy County

Population over time

3 figures

Zapata Ranch fell from 88 to 87 between 2000 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
200088
2010108+20 (+23%)
202087-21 (-19%)

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

48 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Zapata Ranch between 2002 and 2020, burning about 277 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
27 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
22 August 2004Debris and open burning41 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeRANCHITO
19 August 2004Debris and open burning1.2 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexUNDER
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceLARGE FRONTAGE GRASS FIRE
10 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFRONTAGE FIRE
6 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH FIRE
26 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Willacy 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
Zapata Ranch Colonia0.1 miles13
S and C Colonia2.1 miles13
Sebastian2.3 miles13
Hugh Terry Colonia2.7 miles13
Lyford South Colonia3.5 miles9
Lyford4.3 miles9
Bausell and Ellis Colonia5.6 miles9
Raymondville Tract Number 1 Colonia6.9 miles9

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 Zapata RanchAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q976685The 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 1852785. 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.