La Paloma, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Harlingen-San Benito census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78586. The Survey maps it on the La Paloma quadrangle. 3,218 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 49 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLa Paloma grew from 2,903 to 3,218 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 | 2,903 | |
| 2020 | 3,218 | +315 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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.
- 1929 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000
- 1936 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
75 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of La Paloma between 1993 and 2018, burning about 923 acres in total. 1 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 burning | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RANCHITO2 |
| 3 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RANCHITO E |
| 3 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RANCHITO W |
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | USDA |
| 6 August 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | LA ENCANTADA |
| 31 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | 1421 |
| 22 August 1997 | Smoking | 10 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RANCHITO2 |
| 14 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Texas Refuge Complex | PADILLA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Paloma in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | La Paloma | $2,000 | A communication tower knocked was knocked down by strong winds near La Paloma. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Paloma Junction | 0.1 miles | 13 | |
| El Calabozo Colonia | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| El Calaboz | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Landrum | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Carricitos-Landrum Colonia | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Carricitos | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Palmer Colonia | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Rice Tracts Colonia | 2.3 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 La Paloma | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q979039 | 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 1374420. 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.








