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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.

El Lago within Harris County

Population over time

2 figures

El 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,706
20203,090+384 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

18 since 2008

Regional 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service21695 IH45
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000474
4 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service17050 EL CAMINO REAL
29 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service1910 DELLORE, LC, FIRE
17 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-0000247
13 April 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWFD180000577
26 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceE072
20 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWFD180000318

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Laporte Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Webster Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1934

Every working recorded in Harris 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
Taylor Lake Village0.8 miles19
Seabrook1.0 miles19
Kilkare (historical)1.6 miles19
Todville1.7 miles19
Mystic Village1.9 miles19
Baybrook2.2 miles19
Nassau Bay2.8 miles19
Surf Oaks3.1 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 LagoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981260The 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.