Amargosa Colonia, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Orange Grove-Sandia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78332. It stands on Amargosa Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Diego NE quadrangle. 305 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 299 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAmargosa Colonia grew from 291 to 305 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 | 291 | |
| 2020 | 305 | +14 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1920 USGS San Diego quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS San Diego NE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Alice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
61 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Amargosa Colonia between 2008 and 2019, burning about 807 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 51 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 220 1 MILE E OF HWY 281 |
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 281& FM 2044 |
| 4 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FENER |
| 30 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 281 N.JUST S.OF 2044 FIRE |
| 25 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 281 |
| 24 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HOT SPOT |
| 23 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | N.281 - 9 MILES N. OF ALICE |
| 13 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 6757 HWY 281 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Amargosa Colonia: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B G Cornelius Const Co Caliche P | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cornelius Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Petronilla Number 3 Colonia | 0.2 miles | 9 | |
| Amargosa Number 2 Colonia | 0.2 miles | 9 | |
| Owl Ranch Number 2 Colonia | 0.5 miles | 9 | |
| Owl Ranch | 0.7 miles | 9 | |
| Owl Ranch Number 3 Colonia | 0.8 miles | 9 | |
| Salinas Colonia | 0.8 miles | 9 | |
| Owl Ranch Number 1 Colonia | 0.9 miles | 9 | |
| El Carro | 3.3 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 Amargosa Colonia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5671852 | 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 2011506. 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.



