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Bonanza Hills, Texas

census-designated place in Webb County, Texas, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ5731902 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bonanza Hills is a census-designated place in Webb County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, Bonanza Hills had a population of 61. It was a new CDP, formed from parts of the Botines CDP and additional area prior to the 2010 census.

Geography

Bonanza Hills is located at 27°47′41″N 99°28′10″W (27.794768, -99.469502) along U.S. Highway 83 in north-central Webb County.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.11 square miles (2.9 km2), all land.

Demographics

Bonanza Hills first appeared as a census designated place prior to the 2010 U.S. census, one of four CDPs (Bonanza Hills, Four Points, Los Veteranos II, and Sunset Acres) formed in full or in part from the Botines CDP.

2020 census

Education

Residents are in the United Independent School District. Zoned schools include: San Isidro Elementary School, Elias Herrera Middle School, United High School.

The designated community college for Webb County is Laredo Community College.

Editorial summary

“Bonanza Hills, Texas” enters the record as census-designated place in Webb County, Texas, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bonanza, Hills and Texas can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bonanza, Hills and Texas.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Bonanza Hills, Texas” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bonanza, Hills and Texas provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5731902. Authority coordinates are 27.795, -99.469. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2010.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Bonanza Hills, Texas”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Bonanza Hills, Texas primary sources, Bonanza Hills, Texas archive and Bonanza research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Bonanza Hills, Texas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.