Granada Estates Colonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Mission census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78504. The Survey maps it on the Alton quadrangle.

Granada Estates Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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.

1940 USGS Monte Christo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
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 Alton quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Alton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

119 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Granada Estates Colonia between 2003 and 2016, burning about 380 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	51
Debris and open burning	46
Arson/incendiarism	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
25 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRYAN RD FIRE
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
21 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	ALTON
13 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUT DEPOT AND SPRAGUE
4 July 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 July 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	TROSPER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Granada Estates Colonia: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bleakley	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Brandon Lake Colonia	0.4 miles	11
Curl Tex Colonia	0.6 miles	11
L and R Garza Colonia	0.7 miles	11
107 West Colonia	0.8 miles	11
Newkirk Colonia	0.8 miles	11
Shary Country Acres Colonia	0.8 miles	11
Ware Shadows Colonia	0.9 miles	11
Shary Colonia	0.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011196. 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.