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Cuellar Colonia, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Zapata census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78076. It lies near Arroyo Valeriano. The Survey maps it on the Zapata quadrangle.

Cuellar Colonia within Zapata County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

104 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Cuellar Colonia between 2005 and 2019, burning about 670 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/undetermined66
Equipment and vehicle use15
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural1

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
6 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEDINA/GRASS FIRE
5 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE ACROSS LIBRARY
3 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINCOLN AND 10TH STREET
3 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEDINA/GRASS FIRE
23 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSANTA MARIA GRASS FIRE
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePENA LN. VACANT LOT GRASS FIRE
19 August 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceZAPATA CO WATER WORKS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Zapata 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
Manuel Medina Addition Colonia0.3 miles10
Medina0.3 miles10
Ranchito San Jose Colonia0.4 miles10
Flores Addition Colonia0.9 miles10
Guzman Colonia1.2 miles10
Zapata1.3 miles10
A F Pierce Colonia1.6 miles10
Las Palmas2.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010645. 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.