Colorado Acres Colonia, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo North-Webb census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78043. The Survey maps it on the Piedra Parada Tank quadrangle.

Colorado Acres Colonia within Webb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1937 USGS Aguilete Creek quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Piedra Parada Tank quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Colorado Acres Colonia in 2017, burning under an acre in total. None 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 burning	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
16 May 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	LAS PILAS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webb 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 Veteranos 59 Colonia	0.9 miles	8
Ranchitos las Lomas Number 2 Colonia	1.1 miles	8
Ranchitos Las Lomas	1.2 miles	8
Regency Village Colonia	1.5 miles	8
Ranchitos los Mesquites Colonia	1.7 miles	8
Ranchitos los Nopalitos Colonia	1.8 miles	8
Ranchitos los Fresnos Colonia	2.0 miles	8
Ranchitos las Lomas Colonia	2.1 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010682. 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.