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Green Valley Farms Colonia, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Los Fresnos-Laureles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78586. The Survey maps it on the Olmito quadrangle.

Green Valley Farms Colonia within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

98 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Green Valley Farms Colonia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 648 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
23 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
18 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 August 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresLaguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge803 & KEMPNER
29 August 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE VASQUEZ RD
28 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexEL GATO
26 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge Complex1575
25 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Green Valley Farms0.1 miles15
Glenwood Acres Colonia0.9 miles13
Rancho Grande Colonia2.6 miles13
East Stenger Street Colonia2.7 miles15
Graham Colonia2.7 miles15
Expressway 83-77 Colonia2.8 miles15
Russelltown2.9 miles15
Casa del Rey Colonia3.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010261. 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.