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Casa del Rey Colonia, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Los Fresnos-Laureles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78566. The Survey maps it on the Olmito quadrangle.

Casa del Rey Colonia within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

135 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Casa del Rey Colonia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 702 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexMIDGET
23 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
18 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 August 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresLaguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge803 & KEMPNER
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
29 August 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE VASQUEZ RD

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Laureles0.5 miles14
Indian Lake1.3 miles15
La Coma Colonia1.7 miles13
Paredes Estates Colonia1.8 miles14
Los Cuates1.9 miles14
Lourdes Street Colonia2.0 miles11
La Peñusca2.2 miles14
Esquina Colonia2.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010332. 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.