La Villa, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Edcouch-Elsa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78562. The Survey maps it on the Edcouch quadrangle. 2,804 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 52 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLa Villa grew from 1,957 to 2,804 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 | 1,957 | |
| 2020 | 2,804 | +847 (+43%) |
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 Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Edcouch quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
40 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of La Villa between 1999 and 2017, burning about 339 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2004 | Debris and open burning | 41 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RANCHITO |
| 20 August 2009 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 9.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ELSA FIRE |
| 8 July 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | 12 MILE |
| 1 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | EDCOUCH |
| 13 June 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | LRGV |
| 15 May 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | CEMETARY |
| 11 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | OTHA N/O 3 |
| 8 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Villa in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 2 tornado, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2015 | Flood | La Villa | $25,000 | Hazardous high water conditions from heavy rainfall in October continued for eastern Willacy County, where high water remained on roadways, across agricultural fields, and in and around residences and businesses. |
| September 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | La Villa | - | A member of the public shared video of a landspout just east of La Villa. This landspout formed along the leading edge of an outflow boundary that raced through the Lower Rio Grande Valley the afternoon of September 16th. According to the member of the public who shared video of the event, it only last a minute or so and didn't appear to cause any damage as it was near the levee just east of La Villa. |
| August 2020 | Flash Flood | La Villa | - | Cameron County Emergency Manager reported extensive flooding along HWY 107 west of FM2556 due to heavy rain. |
| September 2001 | Tornado (F0) | La Villa | - | A weak tornado near LaVilla was reported by a local television meteorologist. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 1/2 North-FM 491 Colonia | 1.3 miles | 9 | |
| La Hacienda Colonia | 1.4 miles | 9 | |
| L D Morgan's Colonia | 1.6 miles | 9 | |
| Edcouch | 1.7 miles | 9 | |
| McDaniel Addition Colonia | 2.4 miles | 9 | |
| Bar Number 3 Colonia | 2.9 miles | 9 | |
| Bernal Heights Number 2 Colonia | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Salinas-Hinojosa Colonia | 3.1 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 Villa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q977894 | 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 1339419. 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.





