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Agua Dulce Ranch Number 1 Colonia, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Orange Grove-Sandia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78372. The Survey maps it on the San Diego NE quadrangle.

Agua Dulce Ranch Number 1 Colonia within Jim Wells County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

148 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Agua Dulce Ranch Number 1 Colonia between 2007 and 2020, burning about 1,159 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Equipment and vehicle use17
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 304
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service5 MILES WEST ON 624
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service417 JENIFER LOOP
14 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 308
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 308 AND CR 303 #2
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 311
31 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service2163 CR 308
29 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jim Wells County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Agua Dulce Ranch Number 1 Colonia: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Reynolds PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mosser QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wright Caliche Pit & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jim Wells 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 2011498. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.