Alejandrenas, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Zapata census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78076. The Survey maps it on the Arroyo Clareno quadrangle.

Alejandrenas within Zapata County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Arroyo Clareno quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Zapata quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Alejandrenas between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,399 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	2

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
4 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LOPENO GRASS FIRE
31 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHIHUAHUA
19 July 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RUBEN SALINES
9 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,000 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	N.US HWY 83
9 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHIHUAHUA RANCH GRASS FIRE
6 April 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 April 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 April 2005	Debris and open burning	50 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	N CHIHUAHUA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Zapata 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
Morales - Sanchez Colonia	1.0 miles	10
Lopeño	4.8 miles	10
Siesta Shores Section A Colonia	8.1 miles	10
Siesta Shores	8.2 miles	10
Siesta Shores 3 Colonia	8.3 miles	10
Siesta Shores 1 Colonia	8.4 miles	10
Lago Halcon A Colonia	8.9 miles	10
Lago Halcon B Colonia	8.9 miles	10

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.

Wikidata item Q122551471

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 1377923. 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.