Colonia San Miguel, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Sullivan City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78595. It stands on Kathy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sullivan City quadrangle.

Colonia San Miguel within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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.

1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Garcias quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Sullivan City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Sullivan City quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

174 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Colonia San Miguel between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,667 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 15 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	86
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	53
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PIPELINE ROAD
6 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BURNING BARREL
29 September 2000	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	ROXANNE
26 September 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLD MILITARY RD
22 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	QUEZADA RD.
21 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	OLD MILITARY RD
12 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	7714 POLO ST.
9 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	YTURRIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Colonia San Miguel: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bell Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Spaulding Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
Spaulding Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sullivan City	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand

Every working 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
Sullivan City	0.2 miles	11
Vales Colonia	0.3 miles	11
Benevides Colonia	0.3 miles	11
La Hermosa Colonia	0.3 miles	11
Saint Claire Fisher Colonia	0.4 miles	11
Las Cuevas Colonia	0.4 miles	11
Saint Clair Acres Colonia	0.4 miles	11
Las Cuevas Number 2 Colonia	0.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010433. 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.