El Camino Angosto, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Harlingen-San Benito census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78586. The Survey maps it on the La Paloma quadrangle. 186 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 36 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEl Camino Angosto fell from 253 to 186 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 | 253 | |
| 2020 | 186 | -67 (-26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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 La Paloma quadrangle1:24000
- 1936 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
50 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of El Camino Angosto between 1993 and 2019, burning about 703 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | USDA |
| 1 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | SAN BENITO TIRE FIRE |
| 26 July 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | BOOK |
| 24 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE MUTUAL AID |
| 14 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE MUTUAL AID |
| 1 July 2005 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | LINK |
| 9 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RANCHITO |
| 13 June 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Texas Refuge Complex | 2 PILES |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Camino Angosto Colonia | 0.1 miles | 13 | |
| Pennsylvania Avenue Colonia | 0.2 miles | 13 | |
| Yost Road Colonia | 0.8 miles | 13 | |
| Leal Colonia | 1.2 miles | 13 | |
| South Ratliff Street Colonia | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| San Benito | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| Expressway 83-77 Colonia | 1.7 miles | 15 | |
| East Stenger Street Colonia | 1.8 miles | 15 |
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 El Camino Angosto | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981625 | 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 1852703. 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.








