Campo Alto, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the McAllen-Pharr census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78516. The Survey maps it on the Pharr quadrangle.

Campo Alto within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1914 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:48000
1914 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:62500
1916 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:62500, 3 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 Pharr quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

999 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 999 fires within 5 miles of Campo Alto between 1996 and 2018, burning about 1,424 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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	919
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	48
Power generation/transmission/distribution	18
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRASH FIRE
8 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	10-728
7 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
7 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	09-671
5 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRASH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Rancho Escondido Colonia	0.2 miles	14
Val Bar Estate Colonia	0.3 miles	14
Morningsun Colonia	0.5 miles	14
Adkins Colonia	0.6 miles	16
Citriana Village Colonia	0.7 miles	14
Laguna Park Colonia	0.7 miles	16
Northside Village Colonia Number 2	0.8 miles	16
North Alamo	0.9 miles	14

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 Q122560708

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 1332045. 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.