Elizabeth Colonia, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Southeast Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78570. The Survey maps it on the Mercedes quadrangle.

Elizabeth Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Mercedes quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Mercedes quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

71 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Elizabeth Colonia between 1994 and 2011, burning about 1,195 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 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 burning	29
Arson/incendiarism	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	1
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
22 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DIAMOND FIRE
24 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	CORNER
23 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LA FERIA
23 August 2004	Smoking	3.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	9 MILE
8 July 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	12 MILE
20 July 1997	Debris and open burning	435 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	TIOCANO
19 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	OHWC2
17 July 2004	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	LEVEE 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Old Rebel Heights Colonia Number 2	0.5 miles	10
Old Rebel Heights Colonia Number 1	0.6 miles	10
Old Rebel Field Colonia	0.7 miles	10
Capisallo Park Colonia	0.8 miles	10
Heidelberg	0.9 miles	10
Olympic Colonia	1.2 miles	10
Valle de Palmas Number 1 Colonia	1.3 miles	10
High Land Colonia	1.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010397. 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.