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Combes Colonia, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Harlingen-San Benito census division. The Survey maps it on the Harlingen quadrangle.

Combes Colonia within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

50 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Combes Colonia between 1998 and 2018, burning about 162 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Debris and open burning12
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
18 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePRIMERA COMMAND
13 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILCOX COMMAND
1 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServicePALOMA BLANCA COMMAND
26 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILCOX COMMAND
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILSON COMMAND
4 July 2005Debris and open burning35 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexJULY 4TH
27 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service73
22 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTUART PLACE COMMAND

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
Combes0.6 miles13
Bonnaville Terrace Colonia1.3 miles13
Avondale1.4 miles13
Lasana1.6 miles11
Los Ranchitos Colonia1.6 miles13
Eggers Colonia1.7 miles13
Lasana Colonia1.8 miles11
Primera2.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010339. 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.