Indian Hills, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Southeast Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78570. It lies near Harmony Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mercedes quadrangle. 2,694 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 66 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresIndian Hills grew from 2,591 to 2,694 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 | 2,591 | |
| 2020 | 2,694 | +103 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Mercedes quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Mercedes quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
41 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Indian Hills between 2000 and 2016, burning about 395 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning | 27 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4 WEST FIRE |
| 22 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DIAMOND FIRE |
| 23 August 2004 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | 9 MILE |
| 20 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | OTHA 2 |
| 8 July 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | 12 MILE |
| 19 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 19 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 10 NORTH |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capisallo Heights Colonia | 0.1 miles | 10 | |
| Cerrito Colonia | 0.5 miles | 10 | |
| La Mesa Colonia | 0.9 miles | 10 | |
| Rebecca Colonia | 1.1 miles | 10 | |
| Bernal Colonia | 1.3 miles | 10 | |
| Magnolia Number 1 Colonia | 1.5 miles | 10 | |
| Colonia Lucero del Norte | 1.6 miles | 10 | |
| High Land Colonia | 1.8 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 Indian Hills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q973647 | 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 1852715. 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.






