Buena Vista, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Rio Hondo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78566. It stands on Resaca de los Cuates. The Survey maps it on the La Coma quadrangle.

Buena Vista within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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 Coma quadrangle1:24000
1934 USGS La Coma quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS La Coma quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Buena Vista between 1994 and 2020, burning about 375 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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	10
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
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
3 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	LABOR DAY LAGUNA
7 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	ATASCOSA
4 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	HWY 106
11 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	FM106
29 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	HWY 106 N/O
20 July 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LOWBOY
15 July 2012	Natural	123 acres	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	LUTTES 1
5 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LAGUNA

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
La Leona	6.0 miles	16
La Tina	6.8 miles	11
Juan Gonzales Colonia	6.8 miles	11
La Tina Ranch	6.9 miles	11
Arroyo Gardens Number 4 Colonia	7.0 miles	11
Gumesindo Galvan Colonia	7.0 miles	11
Leonar B De Villarreal Colonia	7.3 miles	11
Vicente Sandoval Colonia	7.5 miles	11

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.

Wikipedia article on Buena Vista	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q124304163	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 1378066. 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.