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Colonia Iglesia Antigua, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Harlingen-San Benito census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78559. The Survey maps it on the Santa Maria quadrangle. 415 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 65 feet above sea level.

Colonia Iglesia Antigua within Cameron County

Population over time

2 figures

Colonia Iglesia Antigua grew from 413 to 415 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010413
2020415+2 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

152 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Colonia Iglesia Antigua between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,315 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 55 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
Arson/incendiarism55
Debris and open burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
27 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeOTHL CANAL
29 August 2006Smoking2.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeSMOKEY JOE'S
28 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexGENESE1
25 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeADAMS CANAL N/O
25 August 2002Smokingunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexROADSIDE
23 August 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge2556
23 August 2004Arson/incendiarism30 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeLA FERIA
19 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeSANTA MARIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron 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
Santa Maria0.6 miles13
Longoria Townsite Colonia0.7 miles13
Bluetown0.8 miles13
Bluetown Colonia0.9 miles13
El Venadito Colonia3.9 miles13
Venadito4.0 miles13
Arroyo Alto Colonia4.1 miles13
Arroyo Alto4.1 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on Colonia Iglesia AntiguaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5908969The 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 2010338. 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.