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El Charro Colonia, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the McAllen-Pharr census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78589. The Survey maps it on the Pharr quadrangle.

El Charro Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

705 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 705 fires within 5 miles of El Charro Colonia between 2005 and 2018, burning about 996 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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 burning583
Missing data/not specified/undetermined87
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09-671
5 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE CALL
3 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Minnesota Road-I Road Colonia0.1 miles14
Gonzalez-Zamora Colonia0.2 miles14
Tiny Acres Colonia0.2 miles14
Owassa-Kennedy Colonia0.3 miles14
Rodriguez Street Colonia0.3 miles14
Red Barn Colonia0.3 miles14
Lopezville0.3 miles14
Citrus Ranchitos Colonia0.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010382. 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.