Basham Number 3 Colonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Mission census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78574. The Survey maps it on the Alton quadrangle.

Basham Number 3 Colonia within Hidalgo 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.

1940 USGS Monte Christo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Alton quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Alton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

103 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Basham Number 3 Colonia between 2003 and 2016, burning about 3,742 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Arson/incendiarism	20
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
18 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSHLINE FIRE
9 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	BENTSEN PALM
6 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4 MILE AND IOWA ROAD
4 August 2004	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	LA JOYA
29 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	681
25 August 2004	Debris and open burning	25 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	MINNESOTA
2 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENIZO FIRE
13 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	ALTON 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo 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
CJRS Colonia	1.1 miles	11
Basham Number 9 Colonia	1.8 miles	11
Valley Rancheros Colonia	1.9 miles	11
Sun Valley Estates Colonia	2.0 miles	11
Palmeras Colonia	2.4 miles	11
South Fork Colonia	2.4 miles	11
Carol Colonia	2.5 miles	11
Moorefield Acres Colonia	2.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2009858. 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.