Del Mar Heights Colonia, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Los Fresnos-Laureles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78566. The Survey maps it on the Los Fresnos quadrangle.

Del Mar Heights Colonia within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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 Los Fresnos quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

87 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Del Mar Heights Colonia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,615 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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	35
Debris and open burning	33
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3

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
6 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
6 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	MIDGET
7 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	PALO ALTO
6 August 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE FM 2480
30 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
30 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
29 August 2004	Natural	14 acres	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	FRESNOS
29 August 2004	Natural	8.6 acres	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	MAIN

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
Del Mar Heights	0.0 miles	14
Chula Vista Colonia	1.5 miles	14
Shoemaker Acres Colonia	1.5 miles	14
Orason Acres Colonia	1.7 miles	14
Los Fresnos	2.9 miles	14
La Peñusca	4.0 miles	14
Los Cuates	4.2 miles	14
Paredes Estates Colonia	4.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010343. 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.