Engleman Gardens, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Edcouch-Elsa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78538. The Survey maps it on the La Blanca quadrangle.

Engleman Gardens within Hidalgo 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.

1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS La Blanca quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS La Blanca quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

136 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Engleman Gardens between 2003 and 2017, burning about 460 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	65
Debris and open burning	60
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
3 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
29 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
11 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

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
Collin Colonia	1.0 miles	10
Oak Colonia	1.0 miles	10
Harmel Colonia	1.0 miles	10
Colonia Claude Lookingbill	1.1 miles	10
Engleman Estates Colonia	1.1 miles	10
FM 1925-Floral Rd Colonia	1.1 miles	10
Monte Cristo Hills Colonia	1.1 miles	10
Delta-Rodger Colonia	1.3 miles	10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122590744

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1335468. 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.