Country Aire Estates Number 1 Colonia, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Southeast Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78599. The Survey maps it on the Donna quadrangle.

Country Aire Estates Number 1 Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1914 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:48000
1914 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:62500
1916 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Donna quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

60 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Country Aire Estates Number 1 Colonia between 2003 and 2018, burning about 356 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	46
Arson/incendiarism	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2012	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4 WEST FIRE
22 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DIAMOND FIRE
7 August 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	TRASH FIRE
3 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	JOSE PORTILLO
11 August 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
11 August 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH FIRE
8 July 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	12 MILE
25 July 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MILANOS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Bertha Acres Colonia	0.3 miles	16
Northern Acres Colonia	0.4 miles	10
Mile 10 North at Mile 5 West Colonia	0.4 miles	10
Country Aire Estates Number 4 Colonia	0.7 miles	10
Dimas Number 2 Colonia	0.8 miles	16
Dimas Number 3 Colonia	0.9 miles	16
Barbosa-Lopez Colonia Number 1	0.9 miles	16
Sun Country Estates Colonia	0.9 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010443. 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.