Bushy Creek Colonia, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Crystal City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78839. The Survey maps it on the Crystal City quadrangle.

Bushy Creek Colonia within Zavala County

On record in Bushy Creek Colonia

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Crystal City Internment Camplisted 2014 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1939 USGS Carrizo Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

119 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Bushy Creek Colonia between 2005 and 2020, burning about 413 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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	51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
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
9 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 582 RIVER LOTS
5 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 582
25 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HIKE AND BIKE BRUSH
18 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	EXPOSITION GROUNDS
17 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.6 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STARR
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLD UVALDE HWY
20 August 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RIVER LOTS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Zavala 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
Camposanto-Elcometa Colonia	0.3 miles	10
Amaya Colonia	0.8 miles	10
Crystal City	1.5 miles	10
La Hacienda Estates Number 2 Colonia	1.5 miles	10
Triangula Colonia	1.6 miles	10
Loma Grande Colonia	1.6 miles	10
Popeye Lake Colonia	2.2 miles	10
Las Colonias	2.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010667. 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.