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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.

Laguna Heights within Cameron County

Population over time

2 figures

Laguna 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,488
2020962-2,526 (-72%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

7 since 2002

Regional 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/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLaguna Atascosa National Wildlife RefugeOLD FIRE
6 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service100/BUENA VISTA
6 April 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexBEACON BAY
30 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,500 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexMUY GRANDE
1 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLaguna Atascosa National Wildlife RefugeHWY 48 N/O
27 February 2006Debris and open burning30 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge48
11 January 2002Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexBAHIA

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
Rutherford-Harding Addition Colonia0.1 miles15
Laguna Vista2.4 miles15
Port Isabel2.4 miles14
Holly Beach4.3 miles14
Carretas Crossing4.6 miles15
South Padre Island5.0 miles14
La Aura Crossing5.2 miles15
Del Mar7.2 miles14

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 HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969982The 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.