Los Angeles, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Cotulla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78021. The Survey maps it on the Dull quadrangle. It stands 404 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 10 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.
- 1929 USGS Cotulla quadrangle1:125000
- 1940 USGS Cotulla quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Cotulla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2002 USGS Cotulla quadrangle1:50000
Fires near this place
35 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Los Angeles between 2006 and 2019, burning about 1,365 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 | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MARTINE FIRE |
| 3 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JARDIN FIRE |
| 26 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HIGHWAY 97 FIRE |
| 20 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 4692.2S OF HWY97 |
| 19 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY97 9 OUT |
| 16 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 469 |
| 15 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY97 E OF LOS ANGELES GRASSFIRE |
| 12 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY97GRASSFIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Los Angeles in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Los Angeles | $5,000 | Winds snapped or uprooted trees near Los Angeles. |
| April 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Los Angeles | - | Spotter reported a brief rain wrapped tornado. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Los Angeles | - | Water covered the road on Farm to Market Road 469 south of Los Angeles. |
| February 1998 | Hail | Los Angeles | - | NWS Spotter report of golf ball sized hail. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Los Angeles | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dull | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| Fowlerton | 10.0 miles | 9 | |
| Gardendale | 12.0 miles | 9 | |
| Zamora Acres Colonia | 12.2 miles | 10 | |
| Cotulla | 12.6 miles | 10 | |
| Millett | 13.3 miles | 9 | |
| Woodward | 17.6 miles | 8 | |
| Artesia Wells | 19.8 miles | 13 |
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 Angeles | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q970703 | 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 1340563. 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.








