Galpin Colonia, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Harlingen-San Benito census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78559. The Survey maps it on the La Feria quadrangle.

Galpin Colonia within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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.

1929 USGS La Feria quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS La Feria quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS La Feria quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS La Feria quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

67 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Galpin Colonia between 1993 and 2018, burning about 1,416 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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	28
Arson/incendiarism	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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 August 1993	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	TIOCANO2
23 August 2004	Smoking	3.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	9 MILE
20 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	OTHA 2
10 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RATLIFF
23 July 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	NSUGAR
20 July 1997	Debris and open burning	435 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	TIOCANO
16 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	HOLLAND
8 June 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	WEST OTHA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron 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
O'Canas Family Colonia	0.4 miles	13
Aurora Longoria Colonia	0.6 miles	13
East Cantu Country Estates Colonia	0.6 miles	13
Santa Rosa Number 6 Colonia	0.7 miles	13
Ratamosa Colonia	1.2 miles	13
Santa Rosa Annex Colonia	1.2 miles	13
Ratamosa	1.4 miles	13
Tierra Bonita Number 3 Colonia	1.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010256. 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.