Colonia los Angeles, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Raymondville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78580. The Survey maps it on the Raymondville quadrangle.

Colonia los Angeles within Willacy County

On record in Colonia los Angeles

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Willacy County Courthouselisted 2017 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Raymondville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

50 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Colonia los Angeles between 2002 and 2018, burning about 1,775 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined	31
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
13 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH/GRASS MIXTURE FIRE
1 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH GRASS MIXTURE
7 August 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
5 August 2011	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
29 August 2009	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
25 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
10 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	NATURAL VEGITATION
5 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Willacy 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
Los Angeles	0.1 miles	9
Raymondville	1.0 miles	9
Benitez Colonia	1.0 miles	13
Lisa Colonia	1.3 miles	13
Willacy Acres Colonia	1.7 miles	13
El Chapote Colonia	2.2 miles	13
Ranchette Estates Colonia	2.2 miles	9
Ranchette Estates	2.3 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010678. 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.