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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.

Falcon Heights within Starr County

Population over time

3 figures

Falcon 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.

YearPeople Change
2000335
201053-282 (-84%)
202018-35 (-66%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

150 since 2002

Regional 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/undetermined89
Debris and open burning37
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
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
27 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2007Debris and open burning28 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeLA VIEJA
21 September 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS HWY. 83/CHELES RD.
29 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLA VIEJA ST.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Starr 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
H Cuellar Estates Colonia0.2 miles10
Falconaire Colonia0.6 miles11
Falcon Village0.6 miles10
Miguel Garza Colonia0.6 miles10
Lago Vista Colonia0.9 miles11
Indio Number 2 Colonia1.5 miles11
Indio Number 1 Colonia1.5 miles11
Jardin de San Julian Colonia2.5 miles11

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 HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982216The 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.