Coyote Acres Colonia, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Alice census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78332. The Survey maps it on the Ben Bolt NW quadrangle. It stands 256 feet above sea level.

Coyote Acres Colonia within Jim Wells County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1917 USGS Ben Bolt quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Ben Bolt NW quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Alice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

173 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Coyote Acres Colonia between 2008 and 2017, burning about 1,342 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	146
Debris and open burning	16
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	1599 C.R. 115 FIRE.
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	625 C,R, 137 FIRE.
23 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	118 COUNTY ROAD 140 FIRE,
17 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1000 LUERA ST.
12 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	110 STADUIM FIRE
8 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	4014 W.44 FIRE.
30 August 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	346 CR. 147
25 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SAN JOSE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jim Wells County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Coyote Acres Colonia: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Moose Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jim Wells 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
Hilltop Estates Colonia	0.3 miles	7
K-Bar Ranch Colonia	0.5 miles	7
Alice Acres Colonia	0.7 miles	7
Alice Acres	0.7 miles	7
Hilltop Estates Number 2 Colonia	0.9 miles	7
Coyote Acres	1.3 miles	7
Goldapp Colonia	1.4 miles	7
English Acres Colonia	1.5 miles	7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q34797337

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011511. 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.