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Blue Star Enterprises Number 2 Colonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Sullivan City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78595. The Survey maps it on the Sullivan City quadrangle.

Blue Star Enterprises Number 2 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.

Fires near this place

205 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of Blue Star Enterprises Number 2 Colonia between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,992 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 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 burning111
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural4
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 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePIPELINE ROAD
7 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBENITO ST.
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeBURNING BARREL
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burning100 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeROXANNE
27 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOLD MILITARY RD
22 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceQUEZADA RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Blue Star Enterprises Number 2 Colonia: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Spaulding PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Spaulding PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sullivan CitySand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand

Every working 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
Benavides Colonia Number 20.7 miles11
Colonia Rafael0.8 miles11
Sullivan City1.0 miles11
Las Cuevas Number 2 Colonia1.0 miles11
Saint Claire Fisher Colonia1.0 miles11
Rancho Colonia1.1 miles11
Colonia San Miguel1.1 miles11
Las Cuevas Colonia1.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2009883. 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.