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.
Population over time
3 figuresIndian 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 541 | |
| 2010 | 640 | +99 (+18%) |
| 2020 | 839 | +199 (+31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 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.
- 1930 USGS Barreda quadrangle1:24000
- 1936 USGS Barreda quadrangle1:31680
- 1936 USGS Olmito quadrangle1:31680
- 1945 USGS Olmito quadrangle1:31680
- 1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Olmito quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
145 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 64 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 56 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 6 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | MIDGET |
| 23 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 2 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 18 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 30 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 30 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 29 August 2004 | Natural | 14 acres | Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge | FRESNOS |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Cuates | 0.7 miles | 14 | |
| La Peñusca | 0.9 miles | 14 | |
| Casa del Rey Colonia | 1.3 miles | 15 | |
| Laureles | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Los Fresnos | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Paredes Estates Colonia | 2.2 miles | 14 | |
| Lourdes Street Colonia | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| La Coma Colonia | 3.0 miles | 13 |
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 Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q969603 | 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 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.









