El Lago, Texas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Southeast Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77586. It stands on Taylor Bayou. The Survey maps it on the League City quadrangle. 3,090 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEl Lago grew from 2,706 to 3,090 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 | 2,706 | |
| 2020 | 3,090 | +384 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1916 USGS Seabrook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1920 USGS Seabrook quadrangle1:31680
- 1932 USGS Seabrook quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS League City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Houston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS League City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1992 USGS Houston quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS League City quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
18 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of El Lago between 2008 and 2019, burning about 286 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 21695 IH45 |
| 5 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 11-0000474 |
| 4 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 17050 EL CAMINO REAL |
| 29 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1910 DELLORE, LC, FIRE |
| 17 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 11-0000247 |
| 13 April 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WFD180000577 |
| 26 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.8 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | E072 |
| 20 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | WFD180000318 |
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 El Lago: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Halite, Perlite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laporte Perlite Plant | Perlite | Producer | ||
| Webster Salt Dome | Halite | Occurrence | 1934 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Lake Village | 0.8 miles | 19 | |
| Seabrook | 1.0 miles | 19 | |
| Kilkare (historical) | 1.6 miles | 19 | |
| Todville | 1.7 miles | 19 | |
| Mystic Village | 1.9 miles | 19 | |
| Baybrook | 2.2 miles | 19 | |
| Nassau Bay | 2.8 miles | 19 | |
| Surf Oaks | 3.1 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 Lago | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981260 | 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 1377176. 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.









