Bernal Colonia, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Edcouch-Elsa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78570. It lies near Harmony Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mercedes quadrangle.

Bernal Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Mercedes quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Mercedes quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

39 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Bernal Colonia between 1997 and 2016, burning about 391 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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	23
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	1
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2012	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4 WEST FIRE
23 August 2004	Smoking	3.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	9 MILE
20 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	OTHA 2
8 July 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	12 MILE
23 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	NSUGAR
19 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 July 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	HOLLAND

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
Cerrito Colonia	1.0 miles	10
Capisallo Heights Colonia	1.3 miles	10
Indian Hills	1.3 miles	10
Magnolia Number 1 Colonia	1.8 miles	10
La Mesa Colonia	1.8 miles	10
13 North-2 West Colonia	1.8 miles	10
Colonia Lucero del Norte	2.2 miles	10
Rebecca Colonia	2.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2009875. 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.