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.
Population over time
3 figuresLasara 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,024 | |
| 2010 | 1,039 | +15 (+1%) |
| 2020 | 909 | -130 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Lasara quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
57 since 1995Regional 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 burning | 32 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | COUNTY ROAD 30 |
| 13 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | TENIENTE 4 |
| 13 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 12 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 80 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | TENIENTE 1 |
| 12 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 105 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | TENIENTE 2 |
| 12 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 300 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | TENIENTE 3 |
| 11 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.3 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | EAST LAKE |
| 5 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandy Colonia | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Raymondville Tract Number 1 Colonia | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Ranchette Estates | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Ranchette Estates Colonia | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Raymondville | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Los Angeles | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Bausell and Ellis Colonia | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Willacy Acres Colonia | 7.0 miles | 13 |
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 Lasara | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q979220 | 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 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.





