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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.

Indian Hills within Hidalgo County

Population over time

2 figures

Indian 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,591
20202,694+103 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

41 since 2000

Regional 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 burning27
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2012Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4 WEST FIRE
22 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDIAMOND FIRE
23 August 2004Smoking3.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge Complex9 MILE
20 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeOTHA 2
8 July 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge Complex12 MILE
19 July 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10 NORTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Capisallo Heights Colonia0.1 miles10
Cerrito Colonia0.5 miles10
La Mesa Colonia0.9 miles10
Rebecca Colonia1.1 miles10
Bernal Colonia1.3 miles10
Magnolia Number 1 Colonia1.5 miles10
Colonia Lucero del Norte1.6 miles10
High Land Colonia1.8 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 Indian HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q973647The 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.