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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.

North Alamo within Hidalgo County

Population over time

2 figures

North 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,235
20203,722+487 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

1,002 since 2003

Regional 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 burning906
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Power generation/transmission/distribution18
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10-728
7 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09-671
5 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo 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
Northside Village Colonia Number 20.4 miles16
Morningsun Colonia0.6 miles14
Val Bar Estate Colonia0.7 miles14
Rancho Escondido Colonia0.8 miles14
Citriana Village Colonia0.8 miles14
Bar Number 4 Colonia0.8 miles14
Campo Alto0.9 miles14
Encino Heights Colonia1.0 miles14

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 AlamoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981148The 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.