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Chihuahua Colonia, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Sullivan City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78572. The Survey maps it on the La Joya quadrangle.

Chihuahua Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

480 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 480 fires within 5 miles of Chihuahua Colonia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,663 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 94 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/undetermined184
Debris and open burning177
Arson/incendiarism94
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexLUNCH
7 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexBENTSEN PILE
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeDOVE
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.5 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeABRAM LEVEE
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge Complex1427
28 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexLA HOMA RD
28 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexDOFFING
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism125 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugePALMVIEW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Chihuahua Colonia: 11 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Beck Pit & PlantStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Crow Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Garcia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
No. 1 Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Beck QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche
Frost PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hawkins PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
J-2 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
J-2 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche
Shower Pit & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Mata Colonia Number 20.2 miles10
Chihuahua0.3 miles10
Perezville0.4 miles10
Carlos Acres Colonia0.4 miles10
Tierra Maria Colonia0.7 miles10
Riverside Estates Colonia0.7 miles10
Ebony Hollow Colonia Number 10.7 miles10
Loma Linda Heights Colonia0.9 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010508. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.