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Amada Acres Colonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the La Grulla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78582. The Survey maps it on the La Grulla quadrangle.

Amada Acres Colonia within Starr County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

390 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 390 fires within 5 miles of Amada Acres Colonia between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,902 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 burning234
Missing data/not specified/undetermined130
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service86 OLD CASITA RD
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD CASITA RD.
6 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6154 FM 1430 RD
3 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10 PARROT LN.
3 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceW. HINOJOSA ST.
29 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service210 LOMA BLANCA LN.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Starr County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Amada Acres Colonia: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Lopez Ready Mix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Nordmeyer Incorporated OperationsClayProducer

Every working recorded in Starr 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
Kelsay0.1 miles11
La Puerta0.2 miles11
Camargito Colonia0.2 miles11
Chaparrito Colonia0.3 miles11
El Refugio0.8 miles11
La Puerta Number 2 Colonia0.9 miles11
El Refugio Colonia0.9 miles11
Tamez Colonia1.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011260. 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.