Carretas Crossing, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the East Cameron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78578. It lies near Redhead Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Laguna Vista quadrangle.

Carretas Crossing within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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 Laguna Vista quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS Laguna Vista quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Laguna Vista quadrangle1:24000, 4 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

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Carretas Crossing between 1996 and 2019, burning about 2,708 acres in total. None 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	5
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
31 July 1996	Arson/incendiarism	45 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	VISTADELMA
30 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	OLD FIRE
26 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.4 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOCA CHICA 2
31 May 2005	Debris and open burning	87 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BAHIA 1
3 May 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	OVERDUE
14 May 2008	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	AMFELS
5 March 2004	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOATRAMP
30 March 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,500 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	MUY GRANDE

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 Aura Crossing	1.7 miles	15
Monica	4.5 miles	10
Rutherford-Harding Addition Colonia	4.6 miles	15
Laguna Heights	4.6 miles	15
Laguna Vista	5.6 miles	15
Port Isabel	5.8 miles	14
Starbase	6.1 miles	10
Del Mar	7.4 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 Q122566310

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 1380826. 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.