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.
Population over time
3 figuresZapata 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 88 | |
| 2010 | 108 | +20 (+23%) |
| 2020 | 87 | -21 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1929 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:24000
- 1933 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
48 since 2002Regional 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 burning | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 27 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 22 August 2004 | Debris and open burning | 41 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RANCHITO |
| 19 August 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | UNDER |
| 16 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | LARGE FRONTAGE GRASS FIRE |
| 10 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FRONTAGE FIRE |
| 6 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRASH FIRE |
| 26 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zapata Ranch Colonia | 0.1 miles | 13 | |
| S and C Colonia | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Sebastian | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Hugh Terry Colonia | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Lyford South Colonia | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Lyford | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Bausell and Ellis Colonia | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| Raymondville Tract Number 1 Colonia | 6.9 miles | 9 |
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 Ranch | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q976685 | 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 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.







