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Lopeño, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Zapata census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78564. It lies near Arroyo del Tigre Chiquita. The Survey maps it on the Lopeno quadrangle. 70 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 390 feet above sea level.

Lopeño within Zapata County

Population over time

2 figures

Lopeño fell from 174 to 70 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
2010174
202070-104 (-60%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

16 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Lopeño between 2005 and 2016, burning about 1,342 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/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning2

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
27 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRANCHO BLANCO FALCON TX
4 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOPENO GRASS FIRE
31 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHIHUAHUA
9 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,000 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN.US HWY 83
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHIHUAHUA RANCH GRASS FIRE
6 April 2005Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 April 2005Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Zapata 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
Alejandrenas4.8 miles9
Morales - Sanchez Colonia4.9 miles10
New Falcon Colonia5.0 miles10
New Falcon5.1 miles10
Falcon5.1 miles10
Siesta Shores Section A Colonia12.5 miles10
Siesta Shores12.7 miles10
Siesta Shores 3 Colonia12.8 miles10

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 LopeñoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2456813The 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 1340548. 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.