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Progreso Lakes, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Southeast Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78596. The Survey maps it on the Progreso quadrangle. 257 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 75 feet above sea level.

Progreso Lakes within Hidalgo County

On record in Progreso Lakes

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Progreso Lakes grew from 240 to 257 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
2010240
2020257+17 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

86 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Progreso Lakes between 1995 and 2018, burning about 974 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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 burning44
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
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
22 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeLA COMA 2
21 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined94 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTAORMINA
12 September 2011Debris and open burning13 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-675
9 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge1015
31 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeLA COMA
29 August 2006Smoking2.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeSMOKEY JOE'S
24 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeRUBEN
24 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexWHITEWING

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
B and P Bridge Colonia0.5 miles11
Toluca0.8 miles11
Todd Colonia Number 31.1 miles11
Parajitos Colonia1.1 miles11
Todds Colonia Number 21.2 miles11
Todds Colonia Number 11.2 miles11
Orchard Homes Addition Number 2 Colonia1.4 miles11
Progreso1.4 miles11

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 Progreso LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981388The 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 1388613. 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.