15 1/2 North-FM 491 Colonia, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Edcouch-Elsa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78562. The Survey maps it on the Edcouch quadrangle.

15 1/2 North-FM 491 Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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
1957 USGS Edcouch quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

45 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of 15 1/2 North-FM 491 Colonia between 1997 and 2017, burning about 363 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
22 August 2004	Debris and open burning	41 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RANCHITO
20 August 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	9.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ELSA FIRE
20 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	OTHA 2
8 July 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	12 MILE
23 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	NSUGAR
1 July 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	EDCOUCH
13 June 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LRGV
15 May 2005	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	CEMETARY

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
La Villa	1.3 miles	9
Rogerslacy	2.2 miles	9
L D Morgan's Colonia	2.2 miles	9
Edcouch	2.4 miles	9
La Hacienda Colonia	2.6 miles	9
13 North-2 West Colonia	2.8 miles	10
McDaniel Addition Colonia	3.0 miles	9
Catherine Colonia	3.1 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2009989. 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.