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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.

Los Angeles within La Salle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

35 since 2006

Regional 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARTINE FIRE
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJARDIN FIRE
26 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 97 FIRE
20 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 4692.2S OF HWY97
19 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY97 9 OUT
16 August 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service469
15 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY97 E OF LOS ANGELES GRASSFIRE
12 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY97GRASSFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in La Salle County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2015Thunderstorm WindLos Angeles$5,000Winds snapped or uprooted trees near Los Angeles.
April 2016Tornado (EF0)Los Angeles-Spotter reported a brief rain wrapped tornado.
July 2014Flash FloodLos Angeles-Water covered the road on Farm to Market Road 469 south of Los Angeles.
February 1998HailLos Angeles-NWS Spotter report of golf ball sized hail.
May 2007HailLos Angeles-no account filed

Every storm recorded in La Salle 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
Dull3.9 miles9
Fowlerton10.0 miles9
Gardendale12.0 miles9
Zamora Acres Colonia12.2 miles10
Cotulla12.6 miles10
Millett13.3 miles9
Woodward17.6 miles8
Artesia Wells19.8 miles13

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 AngelesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970703The 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.