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Alameda Estates Colonia, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the El Paso East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79927. The Survey maps it on the Ysleta quadrangle.

Alameda Estates Colonia within El Paso County

On record in Alameda Estates Colonia

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Alameda Estates Colonia in 2011, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism2

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
25 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREEN DALE
8 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSUNSET HILLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Paso 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Villa Espana Colonia0.2 miles18
Buford View Estates Colonia0.4 miles18
La Jolla Colonia0.4 miles18
Adobe Colonia0.5 miles18
La Junta Addition Colonia0.5 miles18
Rio Vista Addition Colonia0.6 miles18
Monterosales Colonia0.6 miles18
Socorro0.7 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010160. 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.