Laguna, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Uvalde census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78801. It lies near Long John Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Laguna quadrangle.

Laguna within Uvalde County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1896 USGS Brackett quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Brackett quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1897 USGS Brackettville quadrangle1:125000
1938 USGS Turkey Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1938 USGS Turkey Mountain quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Turkey Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Laguna quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Laguna between 2006 and 2016, burning about 220 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
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
7 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAMPWOOD
27 August 2009	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDLAND-CR 417 2 MILES
24 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	124 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OX RANCH
3 June 2009	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDLAND-22 MILES W TX 55
3 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDLAND-CR 410 & TX HWY. 55
6 April 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDLAND- HWY. 55 @ CHALK BLUFF
3 April 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WILDLAND-CR 407
21 April 2006	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Uvalde County

Storms near this place

12 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laguna in 12 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 7 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
August 2018	Flash Flood	Laguna	3 hurt, $100,000	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. Based on radar estimates, 8-11 inches of rain fell in a three hour period across northwestern Uvalde County. Many low water crossings flooded across this area, and Highway 55 was closed from Uvalde to Camp Wood. A flood wave traveled down the Nueces River and through the Chalk Bluff camp ground. Several people from the camp ground became stranded in trees and on roof tops of vehicles, and some were reported swept downstream. Twenty-seven people were successfully rescued from the flood waters by boats and helicopter. One person was treated for a head injury and two children were treated for hypothermia. Estimated monetary loss of one hundred thousand dollars based on flooded cars and trailers that were lost downstream.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Laguna	$2,000	A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that moved a horse trailer and knocked down large tree limbs northwest of Uvalde.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Laguna	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. The fire department made a high water rescue of a driver of a semi-trailer truck that was swept off Hwy 55 at the Nueces River.
May 2022	Hail	Laguna	-	A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail between Uvalde and Camp Wood on Hwy 55.
April 2021	Hail	Laguna	-	A thunderstorm produced baseball size hail on Hwy 55 northwest of Uvalde.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Laguna	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing Hwy 55 between Uvalde and Camp Wood near the Nueces River.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Laguna	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding along Hwy 55 at the Nueces River and Indian Creek. Hwy 55 was closed between Uvalde and Camp Wood.
September 2017	Flash Flood	Laguna	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing FM 334 about a mile east of Live Oak Rd. along the West Nueces River northwest of Uvalde.
August 2016	Flash Flood	Laguna	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding closing Hwy 55 between Uvalde and Montell near the Nueces River.
May 2012	Flash Flood	Laguna	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that flooded low water crossings closing FM 334 from Brackettville to Highway 55.
March 2009	Hail	Laguna	-	A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail south of Laguna at Park Chalk Bluff.
July 2007	Flood	Laguna	-	The Nueces River at Laguna crested at 14.3 ft on 07/21 at 0730cst, where flood stage is 10 ft.

Every storm recorded in Uvalde 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Nineteen Mile Crossing	1.5 miles	16
Haby Crossing	7.0 miles	12
Montell	8.2 miles	13
Reagan Wells	12.2 miles	8
Cline	12.8 miles	12
Blewett	16.2 miles	12
Concan	16.4 miles	12
North Uvalde Colonia	16.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378549. 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.