Aguilares, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo South-El Cenizo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78369. The Survey maps it on the Mirando City quadrangle. 6 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 595 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAguilares fell from 21 to 6 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 21 | |
| 2020 | 6 | -15 (-71%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1940 USGS Aguilares quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Mirando City quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS San Ygnacio quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Aguilares in 2017, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 April 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JENNINGS |
| 16 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 2895 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aguilares in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Hail | Aguilares | $25,000 | Storm chaser reported baseball sized hail near Highway 359 west of Aguilares. |
| March 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Aguilares | - | Sheriff Deputy reported a funnel cloud near Aguilares. |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Aguilares | - | Portions of State Road 359, Farm to Market Road 2895 and County Road 649 became impassable near Aguilares due to creeks flowing across the roadways. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Aguilares | - | Spotter report of quarter sized hail. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Aguilares | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Flash Flood | Aguilares | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Flash Flood | Aguilares | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aguilares Acres Colonia | 0.4 miles | 8 | |
| Ranchitos los Veteranos Colonia | 3.7 miles | 8 | |
| Mirando City | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Mirando City Addition Colonia | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Los Ojuelos | 5.7 miles | 8 | |
| Oilton | 6.1 miles | 8 | |
| Rodriguez Addition Colonia | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Pescadito | 10.0 miles | 8 |
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 Aguilares | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q970654 | 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 1329274. 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.
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.



