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Lasara, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lasara census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78580. The Survey maps it on the Lasara quadrangle. 909 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 43 feet above sea level.

Lasara within Willacy County

Population over time

3 figures

Lasara fell from 1,024 to 909 between 2000 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
20001,024
20101,039+15 (+1%)
2020909-130 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

57 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Lasara between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,108 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning32
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeCOUNTY ROAD 30
13 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTENIENTE 4
13 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarism80 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTENIENTE 1
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarism105 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTENIENTE 2
12 September 2011Arson/incendiarism300 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTENIENTE 3
11 September 2011Arson/incendiarism6.3 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeEAST LAKE
5 August 2011Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Willacy 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
Sandy Colonia3.8 miles9
Raymondville Tract Number 1 Colonia4.5 miles9
Ranchette Estates4.8 miles9
Ranchette Estates Colonia4.8 miles9
Raymondville6.9 miles9
Los Angeles6.9 miles9
Bausell and Ellis Colonia6.9 miles9
Willacy Acres Colonia7.0 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 LasaraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979220The 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 1339691. 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.