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La Casita, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the La Grulla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78582. It stands on Garcias Creek. The Survey maps it on the La Grulla quadrangle. 139 people lived here at the 2020 count.

La Casita within Starr County

Population over time

2 figures

La Casita grew from 128 to 139 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
2010128
2020139+11 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

451 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 451 fires within 5 miles of La Casita between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,861 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 burning288
Missing data/not specified/undetermined134
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
9 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service86 OLD CASITA RD
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexHAY
7 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD CASITA RD.
6 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6154 FM 1430 RD
5 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceAURORA ST.
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Starr County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of La Casita: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lopez Ready Mix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Nordmeyer Incorporated OperationsClayProducer

Every working recorded in Starr County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Casita in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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 2022Flash FloodLa Casita$30,000Social media pictures showed several submerged cars that were being removed from flood waters from the heavy rain the night before. Flood depth of 3 to 4 feet is estimated due to how high the water was on the cars.
April 2015Heavy RainLa Casita-Starr County Sheriffs Office reported street flooding occurring in the town of Alto Bonito. Estimated depth of water was up to a foot in some locations. An estimated 2.5 to 3 inches of rain fell.
May 1997HailLa Casita-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Starr 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
Olivia Lopez de Gutierrez Colonia0.3 miles11
Montalvo Hills Colonia0.7 miles11
Manuel Garcia Colonia1.0 miles11
Garciasville1.2 miles11
Victoria Vera Colonia1.2 miles11
Loma Linda East Colonia1.4 miles11
Manuel Garcia Number 2 Colonia1.5 miles11
Chaparrito Colonia1.7 miles11

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 CasitaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5962760The 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 1339291. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.