South Alamo, Texas
16 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 Donna quadrangle. 3,414 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 95 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSouth Alamo grew from 3,361 to 3,414 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 | 3,361 | |
| 2020 | 3,414 | +53 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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 Donna quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
- 1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
906 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 906 fires within 5 miles of South Alamo between 1996 and 2018, burning about 1,326 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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 | 837 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRASH FIRE |
| 8 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 10-728 |
| 7 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 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 |
| 4 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRASH FIRE |
| 4 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 11-656 |
| 4 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pentacostal Colonia | 0.1 miles | 16 | |
| Esperanza Estates Colonia | 0.3 miles | 16 | |
| Road Runner Colonia Number 2 | 0.4 miles | 16 | |
| South Tower Estates Colonia | 0.5 miles | 16 | |
| El Gato | 0.5 miles | 16 | |
| Whitewing Colonia | 0.6 miles | 16 | |
| Southside Village Colonia | 0.8 miles | 16 | |
| Royalty House Number 2 and 3 Colonia | 0.8 miles | 16 |
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 South Alamo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q976670 | 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 1852768. 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.









