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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.

Havana within Hidalgo County

Population over time

2 figures

Havana 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.

YearPeople Change
2010407
2020361-46 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 10 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

119 since 1994

Regional 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/undetermined46
Debris and open burning40
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeBURNING BARREL
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge Complex1427
9 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeYTURRIA
9 August 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeGARZA
8 August 1994Arson/incendiarism15 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge13
5 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOS EBANOS FIRE
5 August 2004Smokingunder an acreLaguna Atascosa National Wildlife RefugeSORGHUM
5 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeLAJOYA2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bell PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crow Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spaulding PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Spaulding PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sullivan CitySand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Hidalgo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Flash FloodHavana$100,000An 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 2024HailHavana-Video showed hail dominant precipitation along P.J. Garza Road near Expressway 83.

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
Havana Lomas Number 5 Colonia0.1 miles10
Havana Lomas Number 3 Colonia0.2 miles10
Havana Lomas Number 4 Colonia0.2 miles10
Havana Lomas Number 2 Colonia0.3 miles10
Havana Lomas Number 1 Colonia0.4 miles10
Crow0.5 miles10
Sam Fordyce1.1 miles10
Lakeview Colonia1.5 miles10

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 HavanaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977752The 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.