La Paloma Addition Colonia, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sinton-Odem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78387. The Survey maps it on the Sinton West quadrangle. 314 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresLa Paloma Addition Colonia fell from 330 to 314 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 330 | |
| 2020 | 314 | -16 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Sinton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Sinton West quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of La Paloma Addition Colonia between 2008 and 2020, burning about 692 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 400 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COTTON |
| 19 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 187 |
| 10 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 55 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 138 |
| 3 January 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 January 2008 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 January 2018 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS AND STRUCTURE FIRE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gonzales 12 Colonia | 0.1 miles | 9 | |
| J G Gonzales Colonia | 0.2 miles | 9 | |
| Second Rancho Chico Additio Colonia | 0.5 miles | 9 | |
| Rancho Chico | 0.6 miles | 9 | |
| Third Rancho Chico Addition Colonia | 0.6 miles | 9 | |
| Rancho Chico Addition Colonia | 0.7 miles | 9 | |
| O'Farrell Acres Number 1 Colonia | 0.7 miles | 9 | |
| Buena Vista Colonia | 0.8 miles | 9 |
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 Paloma Addition Colonia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5964630 | 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 2011322. 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.





