Barrios Colonia, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the East Cameron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78526. The Survey maps it on the East Brownsville quadrangle.

Barrios Colonia within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1930 USGS East Brownsville quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS East Brownsville quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS East Brownsville quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1955 USGS Fort Brown quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

92 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Barrios Colonia between 2002 and 2020, burning about 451 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Arson/incendiarism	18
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	1

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
25 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	ROPE
10 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	LEECH
6 August 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	ALFREDO
31 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	EARLY 2
24 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	EARLY
14 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LOPEZ 2
11 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	LOPEZ
5 July 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	CIRCLE K

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Barrios Colonia: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Chromium, Manganese, Strontium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Brownsville Mill	Bentonite, Barium-Barite	Producer
Brownsville Minerals Plant	Barium-Barite	Producer
C E Minerals Chrome Plant	Chromium, Manganese, Strontium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Centex Cement Corporation Operation	Clay	Producer
Oglebay Norton Fluorspar Plant	Fluorine-Fluorite	Producer

Every working recorded in Cameron 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
Port Brownsville	0.2 miles	16
FM 802-511 Colonia	0.5 miles	16
Illinois Heights Colonia	0.6 miles	16
Travis and Vermillion Colonia	1.0 miles	16
Travis Road Colonia	1.2 miles	16
Bautista Colonia	1.7 miles	16
Stewart Colonia	1.8 miles	16
Reid Hope King Colonia	1.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010322. 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.