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Evergreen, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Edinburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78542. The Survey maps it on the La Blanca quadrangle.

Evergreen 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.

Fires near this place

215 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Evergreen between 2002 and 2014, burning about 414 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning105
Missing data/not specified/undetermined92
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-683

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
Engleman Estates Colonia1.2 miles10
Collin Colonia1.4 miles10
Country Terrace Estates Colonia1.5 miles10
Monte Cristo Hills Colonia1.8 miles10
Delta-Rodger Colonia1.8 miles10
Rodgers Road Colonia2.0 miles10
Engleman Gardens2.0 miles10
Rambo Estates Colonia2.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1335568. 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.