Colonia Garza, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Southeast Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78570. The Survey maps it on the Mercedes quadrangle.

Colonia Garza within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Mercedes quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Mercedes quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

78 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Colonia Garza between 1994 and 2017, burning about 528 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 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 burning	42
Arson/incendiarism	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
22 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DIAMOND FIRE
12 September 2011	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	11-675
9 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	1015
24 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CORNER
23 August 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	2556
23 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LA FERIA
23 August 2004	Smoking	3.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	9 MILE
21 July 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	RUBBERISH FIRE

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mercedes	0.5 miles	10
Lorenzana Colonia	1.2 miles	10
Colonia George	1.3 miles	10
Valle de Palmas Number 1 Colonia	1.3 miles	10
Eastland Park Colonia	1.5 miles	10
Colonia Victoriana	1.6 miles	10
Boyd Colonia Number 1	1.7 miles	10
Dellinger Colonia	1.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010530. 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.