Bluetown 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 Santa Maria quadrangle. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Bluetown 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 Santa Maria quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Santa Maria quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

155 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Bluetown Colonia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,540 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 54 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
Arson/incendiarism	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	47
Debris and open burning	47
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
27 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	OTHL CANAL
29 August 2006	Smoking	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SMOKEY JOE'S
28 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	GENESE1
25 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	ADAMS CANAL N/O
25 August 2002	Smoking	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	ROADSIDE
23 August 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	2556
19 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SANTA MARIA
18 August 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RESACA DE LOS FRESNOS

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
Bluetown	0.3 miles	13
Colonia Iglesia Antigua	0.9 miles	13
Santa Maria	1.5 miles	13
Longoria Townsite Colonia	1.6 miles	13
El Venadito Colonia	2.9 miles	13
Venadito	3.1 miles	13
Los Nogales Estates Colonia	3.3 miles	13
Las Rusias	3.7 miles	13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q34703884

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010326. 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.