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La Coste, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Castroville-LaCoste census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78039. The Survey maps it on the La Coste quadrangle. 1,077 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

La Coste within Medina County

Population over time

3 figures

La Coste fell from 1,255 to 1,077 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
20001,255
20101,119-136 (-11%)
20201,077-42 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

82 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of La Coste between 2005 and 2016, burning about 641 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS 90 W_146
26 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4713
25 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMECHLER RD/HWY 90 W
25 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service8400 JUNGMAN RD
25 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 90 E/CR 482
20 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2124 US-90 W_155
19 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUS-90 EAST
10 August 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 4711

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Medina County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of La Coste: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cedar Rapids QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Medina Gravel Company Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Medina PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Medina 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
Pearson4.2 miles10
Castroville4.8 miles9
Noonan5.7 miles9
Coal Mine5.8 miles10
Bader8.7 miles9
Natalia8.8 miles10
Riomedina9.7 miles9
Dunlay9.9 miles9

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 CosteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q942496The 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 1360818. 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.