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Fays Corner, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the McAllen-Pharr census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78577. The Survey maps it on the Las Milpas quadrangle.

Fays Corner within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

235 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Fays Corner between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,561 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 63 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 burning108
Arson/incendiarism63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexFLEA'S
3 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexWILLOW
29 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-750
21 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-716
8 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexANAYA
7 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceS BENTSEN PALM FIRE
4 August 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeVELA WOODS N
30 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeMARINOFF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fays Corner: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Strontium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Reynosa PlantStrontiumProducer
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working 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
Southfork Estates Colonia0.8 miles15
Sanchez Ranch Colonia1.4 miles15
Las Fuentes Colonia1.4 miles15
Las Haciendas Colonia1.4 miles15
Beto's Acres Colonia1.5 miles15
Las Brisas del Sur Colonia1.5 miles15
Las Milpas1.7 miles15
Valle Alto Number 2 Colonia1.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378287. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.