Relampago, 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 78570. The Survey maps it on the Progreso quadrangle. 129 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Relampago within Hidalgo County

Population over time

2 figures

Relampago fell from 132 to 129 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	132
2020	129	-3 (-2%)

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.

1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Progreso quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Progreso quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

121 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Relampago between 1993 and 2019, burning about 603 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 46 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	51
Arson/incendiarism	46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Smoking	2
Natural	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
27 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	OTHL CANAL
12 September 2011	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	11-675
9 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	1015
29 August 2006	Smoking	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SMOKEY JOE'S
25 August 2002	Smoking	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	ROADSIDE
24 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	WHITEWING
23 August 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	2556
19 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SANTA MARIA

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Oriente Colonia	1.3 miles	11
Waterfall Road Colonia	1.4 miles	11
Toluca	1.7 miles	11
La Frontera Colonia	1.7 miles	11
J R Colonia Number 2	1.8 miles	11
Stephensons Colonia	1.8 miles	11
Capetillo Colonia	1.9 miles	11
A and E Ramirez Colonia	1.9 miles	11

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 Relampago	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q978560	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 1345031. 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.