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Hargill, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hargill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78549. The Survey maps it on the Hargill quadrangle. 800 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Hargill within Hidalgo County

Population over time

2 figures

Hargill fell from 877 to 800 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
2010877
2020800-77 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

38 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Hargill between 1996 and 2017, burning about 297 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
6 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarism80 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTENIENTE 1
31 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID
10 August 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH FIRE
1 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeSAL DEL REY
4 July 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCANAL BANK
22 June 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSHLINE AND 490, SE
18 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hargill in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2016: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2016Thunderstorm WindHargill$500,000Damage began along Farm to Market Road 490 west of Hargill, where a string of three power poles were blown down, as well as several 1 to 3 inch diameter mesquite limbs. Crops in a nearby grain field were also blown at an angle from northwest to southeast. Damage was more notable in colonias in the San Carlos area east of Edinburg, where one poorly anchored roof and one carport were lifted along Farm to Market 2182, and partial roof damage was noted to a single family home and multiple mobile (trailer) homes lost parts of their tin roofs. In all, according to county officials and additional surveys, at least three dozen homes sustained structural damage in the area.
May 2010HailHargill-The public reported ping pong size hail fell across FM 490 east of Hargill.

Every storm recorded in Hidalgo 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
Harding Gill Tract Colonia1.3 miles9
La Coma Heights Colonia2.9 miles9
Monte Alto5.3 miles9
Jessups Colonia5.4 miles9
Edinburg Acres Colonia5.8 miles9
Los Cerritos Colonia6.5 miles8
Hillcrest Terrace Colonia6.7 miles9
Faysville6.8 miles8

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 HargillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978678The 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 1337345. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.