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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.

La Paloma within Cameron County

Population over time

2 figures

La 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,903
20203,218+315 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

75 since 1993

Regional 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 burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Natural1

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
5 September 1993Smokingunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeRANCHITO2
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeRANCHITO E
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeRANCHITO W
23 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeUSDA
6 August 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeLA ENCANTADA
31 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge1421
22 August 1997Smoking10 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeRANCHITO2
14 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexPADILLA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2013Thunderstorm WindLa Paloma$2,000A communication tower knocked was knocked down by strong winds near La Paloma.

Every storm recorded in Cameron 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
La Paloma Junction0.1 miles13
El Calabozo Colonia1.4 miles13
El Calaboz1.4 miles13
Landrum1.7 miles13
Carricitos-Landrum Colonia1.9 miles13
Carricitos2.2 miles13
Palmer Colonia2.3 miles13
Rice Tracts Colonia2.3 miles13

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 PalomaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979039The 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.