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Abram, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Sullivan City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78572. The Survey maps it on the La Joya quadrangle. 1,108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 121 feet above sea level.

Abram within Hidalgo County

Population over time

2 figures

Abram fell from 2,067 to 1,108 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
20102,067
20201,108-959 (-46%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

395 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 395 fires within 5 miles of Abram between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,459 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 81 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/undetermined147
Debris and open burning145
Arson/incendiarism81
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeDOVE
5 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTORTUGA
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.5 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeABRAM LEVEE
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge Complex1427
28 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexDOFFING
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism125 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugePALMVIEW
11 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge Complex1 1/2 MILE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Abram: 15 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Beck Pit & PlantStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Beck QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche
Shower Pit & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shower QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche
Garcia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel

Every working recorded in Hidalgo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Abram in 2 storm reports in 2018: 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Flash FloodAbram$21,000,000State and local emergency management officials, as well as ground truth rainfall totals, reported widespread flooding in south-central Hidalgo County, focused on the Mission/Alton/West McAllen area as a firehose of thunderstorms persisted for more than five hours through the morning commute until around noon before finally dissipating. Estimated and measured rainfall for the event ranged from 6 to 11 inches, with periods of 2 to 3 inches per hour embedded during the heart of the morning commute. Numerous roads, thousands of homes and vehicles (specific number unknown) were under a range of water depth, ranging from 18 inches to 3 to 4 feet in either poorly draining neighborhoods from the west half of McAllen through Mission.||A peak total rainfall of 18.31 inches fell in Mission for the combined events of June 20-22. Estimated damage, using a combination of county-reported damage and standard doubling, was an estimated $22 million for this particular event. Actual values may be much higher as data continues to come in throughout 2019.
June 2018Flash FloodAbram$1,000,000An additional 1 to 2.5 inches of rain fell over already flooded neighborhoods in the McAllen/Mission area early on June 22, exacerbating already dangerous conditions from prior flooding on June 20th and 21st. Neighborhoods in the south and west side of McAllen that had a foot or more of water depth temporarily saw levels rise higher during the peak of the heavy rainfall, which fell for an hour or two during the pre-dawn hours. Additional damage was unknown from the prior estimates.

Every storm 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
Josefina L Chapa Colonia0.3 miles10
Mata Colonia Number 21.5 miles10
Los Trevinos Colonia Number 51.7 miles10
Chihuahua Colonia1.7 miles10
Los Trevinos Colonia1.7 miles10
Los Trevinos Colonia Number 31.7 miles10
Chihuahua1.7 miles10
Los Trevinos Colonia Number 21.8 miles10

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 AbramAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12626505The 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 1329182. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.