BlockLolita, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the La Ward-Lolita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77971. The Survey maps it on the Lolita quadrangle. 519 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 39 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLolita fell from 555 to 519 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 555 | |
| 2020 | 519 | -36 (-6%) |
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.
- 1952 USGS Lolita quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Port Lavaca quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Lolita quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lolita between 2011 and 2017, burning about 352 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 80 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 426 FIRE |
| 29 January 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 262 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TEJANO |
| 15 January 2013 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 436 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lolita in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2007: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1997 | Hail | Lolita | $10,000 | no account filed |
| February 2003 | Hail | Lolita | $5,000 | 3/4 inch hail. |
| December 2002 | Hail | Lolita | $5,000 | 1.75 inch hail in Lolita. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lolita | $5,000 | Marble to quarter-size hail was reported along FM-172 north of La Ward. The County Sheriff's Office reported power lines down east of Lolita on Highway 616. |
| April 1996 | Hail | Lolita | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lolita | - | Trees blown down. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Lolita | - | Nickel-size hail was reported by the Sheriff's office north of Lolita on Highway 111. Several minutes late nickel-size was reported on Highway 172 north of Highway 111. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Lolita | - | Nickel-size hail was reported by the Sheriff's office north of Lolita on Highway 111. Several minutes late nickel-size was reported on Highway 172 north of Highway 111. |
| May 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Lolita | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Lolita | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q975497 | 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 1361622. 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.