Los Indios, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Harlingen-San Benito census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78567. The Survey maps it on the La Paloma quadrangle. 1,008 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 56 feet above sea level.
On record in Los Indios
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- San Benito Irrigation System, Pump House, Weber Drive, one-half mile south of Military Highway, Los Indiosfederal building survey, 1 photograph
Population over time
3 figuresLos Indios fell from 1,149 to 1,008 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,149 | |
| 2010 | 1,083 | -66 (-6%) |
| 2020 | 1,008 | -75 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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 La Paloma quadrangle1:24000
- 1936 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
2 photographs, 2014Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2014. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
74 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Los Indios between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,131 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Texas Refuge Complex | GENESE1 |
| 25 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | ADAMS CANAL N/O |
| 18 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | RESACA DE LOS FRESNOS |
| 12 August 2004 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | HAY BALE |
| 11 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 48 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | CULEBRON |
| 11 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | PIONEER |
| 5 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | LAGLORIA |
| 31 July 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | VIEJO 2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Los Indios in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Flash Flood | Los Indios | $105,000,000 | Some of the heaviest rainfall associated with the historic rainfall of March 26-28 fell in Harlingen. In total, nearly 19 inches was measured by trusted sources, with radar estimates up to 20.5 inches. During the peak of the multiple bands from early evening through just after midnight on the 28th, estimated rainfall rates were at least 3 per hour for at least 3 hours, including at Harlingen/Valley International Airport, where 5 fell in just 90 minutes before the power went out due to lightning strikes.||Hundreds, if not a thousand, structures had flood damage ranging from affected to destroyed. Damage details will be available for this part of Cameron County, which stretches from Harlingen through Rio Hondo and southwest to San Benito, at a later date in 2025. Harder hit areas reported up to 4 feet of water, including the IH-2 and IH-69E frontage roads in these areas. For several areas, this event ranked as a 1/100 to 1/200 annual return frequency probability event, with perhaps up to a 1/500 event in a few spots. High water would continue in several hours for a few more days, though rapid runoff allowed for relatively quick recovery.||As of July 1, a preliminary estimate of $105 million was derived from Public Assistance (PA) and Individual Assistance (IA) reports, based on applying two-thirds of the values from the number of structures that were impacted with varying levels of damage in Cameron County. The damage was applied to this entry, since much was triggered by the rainfall and rainfall rates in these areas at these times. Full damage statistics will be available by the end of 2025 or start of 2026. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Los Indios | $20,000 | An NWS Storm Survey found several down trees and a partially peeled back roof of an industrial warehouse in the Los Indios area of Cameron County. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Los Indios | - | Trained spotter reported quarter size hail in Los Indios. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Las Rusias | 0.7 miles | 13 | |
| Los Nogales Estates Colonia | 1.1 miles | 13 | |
| Venadito | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| El Venadito Colonia | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Carricitos | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Carricitos-Landrum Colonia | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Landrum | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Rangerville | 2.8 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 Indios | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982236 | 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 1374728. 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.








