Gumesindo Galvan Colonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Rio Hondo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78583. The Survey maps it on the Laguna Atascosa quadrangle.

Gumesindo Galvan Colonia within Cameron 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.

1930 USGS Laguna Atascosa quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS Laguna Atascosa quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Laguna Atascosa quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

39 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Gumesindo Galvan Colonia between 2002 and 2020, burning about 515 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	20
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	TUFF LUCK
6 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	HONDO
5 August 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
4 August 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	803 & KEMPNER
3 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
28 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	EL GATO
16 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
30 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	N 1847

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
La Tina Ranch	0.2 miles	11
La Tina	0.3 miles	11
Juan Gonzales Colonia	0.4 miles	11
Leonar B De Villarreal Colonia	0.4 miles	11
Vicente Sandoval Colonia	0.5 miles	11
Alfredo Garza Colonia	0.8 miles	11
Arroyo Gardens	1.1 miles	11
Las Yescas	1.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010262. 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.