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Los Alvarez, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Rio Grande City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78582. It stands on Arroyo Quiote. The Survey maps it on the Roma-Los Saenz East quadrangle. 247 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 197 feet above sea level.

Los Alvarez within Starr County

Population over time

3 figures

Los Alvarez fell from 1,434 to 247 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
20001,434
2010303-1,131 (-79%)
2020247-56 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

908 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 908 fires within 5 miles of Los Alvarez between 2002 and 2020, burning about 4,953 acres in total. None started naturally. 30 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined687
Debris and open burning175
Arson/incendiarism30
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
9 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAZAN AVE.
7 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6 N SAN JULIAN RD.
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOCKER RD.
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCINDY'S AVE.
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceVICTOR LN.
6 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAZAN RD.
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUNIZ CIR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Starr County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Los Alvarez: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fidel Guerra Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Guerra PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Starr 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
Palo Blanco Colonia0.2 miles9
Barrera Colonia0.3 miles9
Remolino0.4 miles9
El Quiote Colonia0.5 miles9
Campo Verde Colonia0.7 miles9
Flor del Rio Colonia0.8 miles9
Anacua Colonia1.0 miles9
Los Barreras1.0 miles9

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 AlvarezAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981599The 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 1852732. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.