Boca Chica and Medford Colonia, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the East Cameron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78521. The Survey maps it on the East Brownsville quadrangle.

Boca Chica and Medford Colonia within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1930 USGS East Brownsville quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS East Brownsville quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS East Brownsville quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1955 USGS Fort Brown quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

121 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Boca Chica and Medford Colonia between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,856 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 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	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Arson/incendiarism	28
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	ROPE
10 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	LEECH
6 August 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	ALFREDO
4 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	120 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SABAL PALMS N
31 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	EARLY 2
27 August 1998	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	JERONIMO 2
25 August 2004	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SALINAS
24 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	EARLY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Boca Chica and Medford Colonia: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Chromium, Manganese, Strontium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Brownsville Mill	Bentonite, Barium-Barite	Producer
Brownsville Minerals Plant	Barium-Barite	Producer
C E Minerals Chrome Plant	Chromium, Manganese, Strontium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Centex Cement Corporation Operation	Clay	Producer
Oglebay Norton Fluorspar Plant	Fluorine-Fluorite	Producer

Every working 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
Kellers Corner Colonia	0.5 miles	16
Reid Hope King Colonia	0.7 miles	16
Harris Tract Colonia	0.7 miles	16
Saldivar Colonia	0.8 miles	16
Betty Acres Colonia	0.8 miles	16
Houston Road East Colonia	1.0 miles	16
Travis Road Colonia	1.0 miles	16
Bautista Colonia	1.3 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010327. 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.