Coulson Colonia, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Rio Hondo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78583. The Survey maps it on the La Leona quadrangle.

Coulson Colonia within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1930 USGS La Leona quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS La Leona quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS La Leona quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS La Leona quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Coulson Colonia between 2000 and 2015, burning about 475 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined	3
Natural	3
Smoking	1
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
31 August 2015	Natural	40 acres	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT 3
30 June 2006	Natural	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
1 June 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	ADOLPH THOMAE CAMP
30 May 2002	Natural	30 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	WHRSBRENT?
6 March 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	ADOLPH THOMAE
3 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CANNED HAM
27 March 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	2925
8 December 2000	Smoking	400 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LAGUNA

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Schwartz Colonia	0.2 miles	16
Channel Lots Colonia	0.3 miles	16
Arroyo City	0.4 miles	16
Arroyo City Subdivision Colonia	0.5 miles	16
XX Farms Colonia	3.5 miles	16
La Leona	5.4 miles	16
Monte Grande	7.0 miles	11
Arroyo Gardens Number 4 Colonia	7.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010341. 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.