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Coletoville, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Victoria West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77905. The Survey maps it on the Schroeder quadrangle.

Coletoville within Victoria County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

100 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Coletoville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 752 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLETOVILLE RD #2
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 446 FIRE
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined125 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09042011-LEROY SCHNEIDER
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOODY
29 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDELORAS
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 446
2 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOLETOVILLE
10 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHUBERT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Victoria 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
Raisin1.8 miles8
Oak Village2.8 miles7
Quail Creek3.6 miles9
Aloe3.7 miles9
Chipley6.1 miles9
Victoria8.2 miles9
Dupre9.2 miles9
Hughes9.3 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122540727The 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 1379571. 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.