Cienegas Terrace Colonia, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Del Rio census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78840. It stands on Salt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Del Rio SW quadrangle.

Cienegas Terrace Colonia within Val Verde County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1943 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Del Rio SW quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

19 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Cienegas Terrace Colonia between 2000 and 2018, burning about 4,732 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	16
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1

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
5 August 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WIND MILL TRAIL FIRE
14 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MOODY 6 FIRE
13 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4 SILO
6 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SOTO FIRE
28 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	360 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	STAR
8 April 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Amistad National Recreation Area	SALT CREEK
5 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Val Verde County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cienegas Terrace Colonia: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Del Rio Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Val Verde 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
Cienegas Terrace	0.4 miles	7
Payment Colonia	1.0 miles	7
Owens Addition Number 1 Colonia	1.1 miles	7
Owens Addition Number 2 Colonia	1.2 miles	7
Del Rio	2.9 miles	7
Rio Bravo Colonia	3.1 miles	7
Los Campos Number 3 and 4 Colonia	4.2 miles	7
Los Campos Number 1,2 and 5 Colonia	4.3 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010769. 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.