Laguna Heights, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the East Cameron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78578. It lies near Loma la Cuchilla. The Survey maps it on the Laguna Vista quadrangle. 962 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLaguna Heights fell from 3,488 to 962 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 | 3,488 | |
| 2020 | 962 | -2,526 (-72%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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 Laguna Vista quadrangle1:24000
- 1936 USGS Laguna Vista quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Laguna Vista quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Laguna Heights between 2002 and 2018, burning about 2,538 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge | OLD FIRE |
| 6 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 100/BUENA VISTA |
| 6 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Texas Refuge Complex | BEACON BAY |
| 30 March 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,500 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | MUY GRANDE |
| 1 March 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge | HWY 48 N/O |
| 27 February 2006 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | 48 |
| 11 January 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | South Texas Refuge Complex | BAHIA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rutherford-Harding Addition Colonia | 0.1 miles | 15 | |
| Laguna Vista | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Port Isabel | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Holly Beach | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Carretas Crossing | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| South Padre Island | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| La Aura Crossing | 5.2 miles | 15 | |
| Del Mar | 7.2 miles | 14 |
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 Laguna Heights | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q969982 | 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 1374433. 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.








