H Cuellar Estates Colonia, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Roma-Los Saenz census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78584. The Survey maps it on the Falcon Village quadrangle.

H Cuellar Estates Colonia within Starr County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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.

1938 USGS Falcon quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Falcon Village quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Zapata quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

149 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of H Cuellar Estates Colonia between 2002 and 2020, burning about 941 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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	89
Debris and open burning	37
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
27 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
25 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
24 September 2007	Debris and open burning	28 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LA VIEJA
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
2 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
31 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
3 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	US HWY. 83/CHELES RD.
29 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LA VIEJA ST.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Starr 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
Falcon Heights	0.2 miles	11
Falcon Village	0.4 miles	10
Miguel Garza Colonia	0.6 miles	10
Falconaire Colonia	0.8 miles	11
Lago Vista Colonia	1.0 miles	11
Indio Number 2 Colonia	1.7 miles	11
Indio Number 1 Colonia	1.7 miles	11
Jardin de San Julian Colonia	2.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010844. 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.