Havana, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Sullivan City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78560. The Survey maps it on the Los Ebanos quadrangle. 361 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 157 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHavana fell from 407 to 361 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 | 407 | |
| 2020 | 361 | -46 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 10 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.
- 1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Los Ebanos quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Los Ebanos quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Los Ebanos quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
119 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Havana between 1994 and 2018, burning about 2,800 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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 | 46 |
| Debris and open burning | 40 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | BURNING BARREL |
| 30 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Texas Refuge Complex | 1427 |
| 9 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | YTURRIA |
| 9 August 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | GARZA |
| 8 August 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | 13 |
| 5 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LOS EBANOS FIRE |
| 5 August 2004 | Smoking | under an acre | Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge | SORGHUM |
| 5 August 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | LAJOYA2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Havana: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bell Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Crow Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Spaulding Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| Spaulding Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sullivan City | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Gravel, Sand |
Storms near this place
2 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Havana in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Havana | $100,000 | An official with the local Council of Government reported several feet of water on property next to her house, with over six inches of water inside her home north of La Joya. Total event rainfall exceeded 10 inches in this area over the course of several hours; additional flooding was also experienced in the area. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Havana | - | Video showed hail dominant precipitation along P.J. Garza Road near Expressway 83. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Havana Lomas Number 5 Colonia | 0.1 miles | 10 | |
| Havana Lomas Number 3 Colonia | 0.2 miles | 10 | |
| Havana Lomas Number 4 Colonia | 0.2 miles | 10 | |
| Havana Lomas Number 2 Colonia | 0.3 miles | 10 | |
| Havana Lomas Number 1 Colonia | 0.4 miles | 10 | |
| Crow | 0.5 miles | 10 | |
| Sam Fordyce | 1.1 miles | 10 | |
| Lakeview Colonia | 1.5 miles | 10 |
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 Havana | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q977752 | 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 1378428. 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.
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.








