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El Charro Number 2 Colonia, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Edinburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78542. The Survey maps it on the Donna quadrangle.

El Charro Number 2 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.

Fires near this place

854 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 854 fires within 5 miles of El Charro Number 2 Colonia between 2005 and 2018, burning about 1,251 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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 burning721
Missing data/not specified/undetermined95
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 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

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
L J Number 1 Colonia0.4 miles16
Alberta Acres Colonia0.5 miles16
Owassa Rd-Tower Rd Colonia0.6 miles16
Tierra Bonita Number 1 Colonia0.9 miles16
Tierra Bonita Number 2 Colonia1.0 miles16
Owassa Estates Colonia1.0 miles16
Cole Colonia1.1 miles16
Murillo Colonia1.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010383. 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.