Alto Colorado, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Encino census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78355. It stands on Arroyo Baluarte. The Survey maps it on the Falfurrias quadrangle.

Alto Colorado within Brooks County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1921 USGS Falfurrias quadrangle1:125000
1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Falfurrias quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Falfurrias quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

52 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Alto Colorado between 2006 and 2018, burning about 7,474 acres 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
Debris and open burning	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 June 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	SHORT GRASS 1418
9 May 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	QUINTINALLA RANCH
25 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2,800 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MARIPOSA #3
10 May 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PEREZ/ VILLAREAL RANCHES
9 April 2011	Debris and open burning	300 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LOMA BLANCA RANCH
24 April 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 April 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 April 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAGE RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brooks County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Alto Colorado: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Halite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gyp Hill Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite, Halite	Past Producer	1911, 1942

Every working recorded in Brooks 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 India	1.1 miles	8
Cantu Addition Number 1 Colonia	3.4 miles	8
Cantu Addition Number 2 Colonia	3.5 miles	8
Cantu Addition	3.5 miles	8
Airport Road Addition Colonia	4.0 miles	7
Airport Road Addition	4.6 miles	7
Rush Addition Colonia	4.8 miles	7
Noria Willie	4.9 miles	7

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 Q122547062

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 1377931. 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.