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La Blanca, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Edinburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78542. The Survey maps it on the La Blanca quadrangle. 2,078 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

La Blanca within Hidalgo County

Population over time

2 figures

La Blanca fell from 2,488 to 2,078 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
20102,488
20202,078-410 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

196 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of La Blanca between 2003 and 2017, burning about 672 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning94
Missing data/not specified/undetermined85
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
27 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePALM TREE FIRE
20 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-683
13 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Blanca in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
May 2012HailLa Blanca-Public reported penny size hail 10 mile NE of Edinburg near Elsa at the intersection of FM2812 and Val Verde Road.

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
Rosalito Colonia0.1 miles10
Imperial Colonia0.3 miles10
Rankin Colonia0.6 miles10
Green Valley Development Subdividion Colonia0.7 miles10
Tropicana Colonia0.7 miles10
Southern Breeze Colonia0.9 miles10
San Carlos Acres Colonia1.0 miles10
Fleamarket Colonia1.0 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 La BlancaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981322The 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 1339278. 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.

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.