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Los Angeles, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Puerto Rico-San Manuel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78563. The Survey maps it on the Linn Siding quadrangle. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Los Angeles within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

28 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Los Angeles between 2000 and 2018, burning about 29,520 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
25 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexCUELLAR!
6 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexMILLER '09
21 July 2000Arson/incendiarism500 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeSALDELRAY
8 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
21 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined189 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexMILLER
20 June 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge281 FIRE
15 May 2009Smoking7.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeSAL DEL REY 2
5 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1017 AND 281, 2 MI. W.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Los Angeles: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cooks PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Linn Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Linn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche

Every working recorded in Hidalgo 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
San Manuel1.4 miles11
Linn1.6 miles11
Lane Number 1 Colonia5.2 miles11
Lane Number 2 Colonia5.2 miles11
Red Gate5.6 miles8
Solino6.2 miles8
Laguna Seca6.4 miles8
Los Cerritos Colonia9.4 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q126734710The 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 1378610. 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.