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Lago, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Brownsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78586. The Survey maps it on the Olmito quadrangle. 161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 39 feet above sea level.

Lago within Cameron County

Population over time

2 figures

Lago fell from 204 to 161 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
2010204
2020161-43 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

87 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Lago between 1993 and 2020, burning about 897 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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

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
Lago Colonia0.0 miles15
Graham Colonia1.2 miles15
Russelltown1.7 miles15
Expressway 83-77 Colonia1.8 miles15
Palmer Colonia1.8 miles13
Yost Road Colonia1.8 miles13
East Stenger Street Colonia2.1 miles15
Rice Tracts Colonia2.2 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 LagoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981378The 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 1852718. 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.