Bougainvillea Colonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Mission census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78573. The Survey maps it on the Alton quadrangle.

Bougainvillea 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.

1940 USGS Monte Christo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Alton quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Alton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

100 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Bougainvillea Colonia between 2003 and 2016, burning about 738 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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	39
Debris and open burning	36
Arson/incendiarism	21
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	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 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRYAN RD FIRE
25 August 2004	Debris and open burning	25 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	MINNESOTA
23 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 August 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	MOOREFIELD
21 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	ALTON
2 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CENIZO FIRE
13 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MOOREFIELD & 6 1/2 MILE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bougainvillea Colonia: 1 unknown. None of them 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bleakley	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Upper Sharyland Colonia	0.5 miles	11
Devan Estates Colonia	0.7 miles	11
Cantu	0.8 miles	11
Basham Number 14 Colonia	0.9 miles	11
Ramon Leal Colonia	0.9 miles	11
Acosta Colonia	1.0 miles	11
Shary Country Acres Colonia	1.1 miles	11
Anna Lisa Colonia	1.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2009887. 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.