North Alamo, Texas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the McAllen-Pharr census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78516. The Survey maps it on the Pharr quadrangle. 3,722 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 98 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNorth Alamo grew from 3,235 to 3,722 between 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,235 | |
| 2020 | 3,722 | +487 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 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.
- 1914 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:48000
- 1914 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:62500
- 1916 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Pharr quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1,002 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,002 fires within 5 miles of North Alamo between 2003 and 2018, burning about 1,365 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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 | 906 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 10-728 |
| 7 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 09-671 |
| 5 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRASH FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northside Village Colonia Number 2 | 0.4 miles | 16 | |
| Morningsun Colonia | 0.6 miles | 14 | |
| Val Bar Estate Colonia | 0.7 miles | 14 | |
| Rancho Escondido Colonia | 0.8 miles | 14 | |
| Citriana Village Colonia | 0.8 miles | 14 | |
| Bar Number 4 Colonia | 0.8 miles | 14 | |
| Campo Alto | 0.9 miles | 14 | |
| Encino Heights Colonia | 1.0 miles | 14 |
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 North Alamo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981148 | 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 1852743. 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.









