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11 North-Victoria Road-FM 493 Colonia, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Southeast Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78537. The Survey maps it on the Donna quadrangle.

11 North-Victoria Road-FM 493 Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

395 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 395 fires within 5 miles of 11 North-Victoria Road-FM 493 Colonia between 2003 and 2018, burning about 949 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning361
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2012Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4 WEST FIRE
5 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09-671
4 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceILLEGAL BURN
28 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10-776
27 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
27 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePALM TREE FIRE
27 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

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.

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2009986. 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.