Mirando City, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo South-El Cenizo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78369. The Survey maps it on the Mirando City quadrangle. 222 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 758 feet above sea level.
On record in Mirando City
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Los Ojueloslisted 1976
Population over time
3 figuresMirando City fell from 493 to 222 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 | 493 | |
| 2010 | 375 | -118 (-24%) |
| 2020 | 222 | -153 (-41%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1940 USGS Aguilares quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Mirando City quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS San Ygnacio quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Mirando City in 2017, burning about 6 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | JC PEREZ |
| 8 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | MOLINA |
| 15 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 649 |
| 3 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | CHINO'S |
| 10 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 500 MAIN |
| 27 January 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 649 |
| 22 January 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MIRANDO |
| 1 January 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | PARK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mirando City in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mirando City | $5,000 | Public reported large tree blown down in Mirando City. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Mirando City | - | Public reported nickel sized hail in Mirando City. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Mirando City | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Mirando City | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Flash Flood | Mirando City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mirando City Addition Colonia | 0.2 miles | 8 | |
| Ranchitos los Veteranos Colonia | 1.0 miles | 8 | |
| Oilton | 2.3 miles | 8 | |
| Rodriguez Addition Colonia | 2.4 miles | 8 | |
| Los Ojuelos | 2.5 miles | 8 | |
| Aguilares | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Aguilares Acres Colonia | 4.9 miles | 8 | |
| Bruni | 8.5 miles | 8 |
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 Mirando City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q969173 | 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 1341732. 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.



