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Beamsley Colonia, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the McAllen-Pharr census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78577. The Survey maps it on the Pharr quadrangle.

Beamsley Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

193 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Beamsley Colonia between 2005 and 2018, burning about 301 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning138
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE CALL
3 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-740
26 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceILLEGAL BURN

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Thrasher Terrace Colonia0.5 miles14
Border Colonia1.0 miles14
Acacia Colonia1.3 miles11
Gomez Colonia1.5 miles14
Borderland Retreat Colonia1.6 miles11
Yvonne Colonia1.6 miles14
Eldora Colonia1.8 miles14
Diaz Colonia1.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2009866. 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.