Carricitos, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Harlingen-San Benito census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78586. The Survey maps it on the La Paloma quadrangle.

Carricitos within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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 Paloma quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

45 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Carricitos between 1995 and 2020, burning about 956 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	10
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
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	USDA
11 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	48 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CULEBRON
1 August 2011	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	SAN BENITO TIRE FIRE
31 July 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	VIEJO 2
31 July 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	VIEJO 1
29 July 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	RESERVOIR
24 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE MUTUAL AID
18 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	WEAVER COMMAND

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
Carricitos-Landrum Colonia	0.3 miles	13
Landrum	0.6 miles	13
Los Indios	1.9 miles	13
La Paloma	2.2 miles	13
La Paloma Junction	2.3 miles	13
Las Rusias	2.6 miles	13
Los Nogales Estates Colonia	3.0 miles	13
Venadito	3.2 miles	13

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 Carricitos	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122596335	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 1372949. 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.