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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.

El Camino Angosto within Cameron County

Population over time

2 figures

El 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.

YearPeople Change
2010253
2020186-67 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

50 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeUSDA
1 August 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexSAN BENITO TIRE FIRE
26 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeBOOK
24 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE MUTUAL AID
14 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE MUTUAL AID
1 July 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexLINK
9 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeRANCHITO
13 June 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge Complex2 PILES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron 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
El Camino Angosto Colonia0.1 miles13
Pennsylvania Avenue Colonia0.2 miles13
Yost Road Colonia0.8 miles13
Leal Colonia1.2 miles13
South Ratliff Street Colonia1.5 miles13
San Benito1.6 miles13
Expressway 83-77 Colonia1.7 miles15
East Stenger Street Colonia1.8 miles15

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 AngostoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981625The 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.