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Indian Lake, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Los Fresnos-Laureles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78566. The Survey maps it on the Olmito quadrangle. 839 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Indian Lake within Cameron County

Population over time

3 figures

Indian Lake grew from 541 to 839 between 2000 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
2000541
2010640+99 (+18%)
2020839+199 (+31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

145 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Indian Lake between 1993 and 2020, burning about 768 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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 burning64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2

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 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexMIDGET
23 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
18 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
29 August 2004Natural14 acresLaguna Atascosa National Wildlife RefugeFRESNOS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron 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
Los Cuates0.7 miles14
La Peñusca0.9 miles14
Casa del Rey Colonia1.3 miles15
Laureles1.4 miles14
Los Fresnos1.8 miles14
Paredes Estates Colonia2.2 miles14
Lourdes Street Colonia2.9 miles11
La Coma Colonia3.0 miles13

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969603The 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 1388581. 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.