Bishop Colonia, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Harlingen-San Benito census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78586. The Survey maps it on the La Paloma quadrangle.

Bishop Colonia within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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.

1929 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

76 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Bishop Colonia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,112 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Debris and open burning	23
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Smoking	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
25 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	ADAMS CANAL N/O
18 August 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RESACA DE LOS FRESNOS
12 August 2004	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	HAY BALE
1 August 2011	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	SAN BENITO TIRE FIRE
4 July 2005	Debris and open burning	35 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	JULY 4TH
31 July 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	VIEJO 2
31 July 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	VIEJO 1
29 July 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	RESERVOIR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Gonzales Colonia	0.7 miles	13
Rangerville Estates Colonia	2.3 miles	13
Rangerville	2.4 miles	13
Rangerville Colonia	2.4 miles	13
South Ratliff Street Colonia	3.3 miles	13
Leal Colonia	3.4 miles	13
Palacios Estates Colonia	3.7 miles	13
El Camino Angosto	4.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010325. 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.