Falcon Heights, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Roma-Los Saenz census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78545. The Survey maps it on the Salineno quadrangle. 18 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 272 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresFalcon Heights fell from 335 to 18 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 335 | |
| 2010 | 53 | -282 (-84%) |
| 2020 | 18 | -35 (-66%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1938 USGS Falcon quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Salineno quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Zapata quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
150 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Falcon Heights between 2002 and 2020, burning about 942 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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 | 89 |
| Debris and open burning | 37 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 25 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 28 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | LA VIEJA |
| 21 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 31 August 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | US HWY. 83/CHELES RD. |
| 29 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LA VIEJA ST. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| H Cuellar Estates Colonia | 0.2 miles | 10 | |
| Falconaire Colonia | 0.6 miles | 11 | |
| Falcon Village | 0.6 miles | 10 | |
| Miguel Garza Colonia | 0.6 miles | 10 | |
| Lago Vista Colonia | 0.9 miles | 11 | |
| Indio Number 2 Colonia | 1.5 miles | 11 | |
| Indio Number 1 Colonia | 1.5 miles | 11 | |
| Jardin de San Julian Colonia | 2.5 miles | 11 |
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 Falcon Heights | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982216 | 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 1335664. 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.







