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Chapa Number 1 Colonia, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Southeast Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78599. The Survey maps it on the Donna quadrangle.

Chapa Number 1 Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

248 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Chapa Number 1 Colonia between 2003 and 2018, burning about 882 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning223
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10-728
7 September 2012Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4 WEST FIRE
4 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10-776
25 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service10-765
22 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDIAMOND FIRE
21 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined94 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTAORMINA

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
High Point Colonia0.2 miles16
Victoria Acres Colonia0.3 miles16
Colonia del Noreste0.4 miles16
Delta Court Colonia0.5 miles16
Flora Colonia0.5 miles16
Barbosa-Lopez Colonia Number 10.6 miles16
Expressway Heights Colonia0.7 miles16
Sun Country Estates Colonia0.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010506. 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.