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Laguna Seca, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Puerto Rico-San Manuel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78541. The Survey maps it on the Faysville quadrangle. 232 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 105 feet above sea level.

Laguna Seca within Hidalgo County

Population over time

2 figures

Laguna Seca fell from 266 to 232 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
2010266
2020232-34 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Laguna Seca between 2005 and 2011, burning about 2,610 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning2
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
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10 MILE
23 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexLAGUNA SECA
6 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexMILLER '09
4 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
21 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined189 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexMILLER
28 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
12 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexFLORAL RD
6 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,500 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexMILLER ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo 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 Laguna Seca: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Caliche QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche

Every working recorded in Hidalgo 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
Lane Number 1 Colonia3.0 miles11
Lane Number 2 Colonia3.2 miles11
Red Gate3.2 miles8
Solino3.3 miles8
Alsonia Colonia4.7 miles8
Los Cerritos Colonia4.8 miles8
Linn5.9 miles11
San Manuel6.1 miles11

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 SecaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980484The 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 1378550. 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.