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La Presa, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo South-El Cenizo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78046. The Survey maps it on the Laredo South quadrangle. 241 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 512 feet above sea level.

La Presa within Webb County

Population over time

2 figures

La Presa fell from 319 to 241 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
2010319
2020241-78 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

50 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of La Presa between 2010 and 2019, burning about 155 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
27 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
6 August 2015Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE
5 August 2012Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
17 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
10 August 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webb County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of La Presa: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Webb 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 Presa Colonia0.1 miles9
One River Place Colonia2.5 miles9
Rio Bravo Colonia3.3 miles8
Rio Bravo3.4 miles8
Rio Bravo Annex Colonia4.0 miles8
El Cenizo4.4 miles8
El Cenizo Colonia Number 15.8 miles7
Old Milwaukee West Colonia6.1 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 PresaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977852The 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 1852720. 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.