Los Altos Colonia, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo South-El Cenizo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78043. The Survey maps it on the Laredo South quadrangle. 175 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresLos Altos Colonia grew from 140 to 175 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 | 140 | |
| 2020 | 175 | +35 (+25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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.
- 1933 USGS Becerra Creek quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Laredo South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS San Ygnacio quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Los Altos Colonia between 2012 and 2017, burning about 23 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 | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | EL ROCICO |
| 11 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 59 |
| 3 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 4 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MILARGO |
| 21 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MILAGRO |
| 7 December 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | JUDITH |
| 6 November 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | ALVARADO |
| 5 November 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FLORES RANCH |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanquecitos South Acres Colonia | 0.3 miles | 9 | |
| D-5 Acres Colonia | 0.6 miles | 9 | |
| San Carlos Number 1 Colonia | 0.7 miles | 8 | |
| Laredo Ranchettes | 0.9 miles | 8 | |
| San Carlos Number 2 Colonia | 1.0 miles | 8 | |
| Ranchitos 359 East Colonia | 1.0 miles | 8 | |
| Laredo Ranchettes Colonia | 1.3 miles | 8 | |
| Old Milwaukee East Colonia | 1.9 miles | 9 |
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 Los Altos Colonia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5979300 | 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 2010697. 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.



