Havana Lomas Number 2 Colonia, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Sullivan City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78560. The Survey maps it on the Los Ebanos quadrangle.

Havana Lomas Number 2 Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Los Ebanos quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Los Ebanos quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Los Ebanos quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

121 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Havana Lomas Number 2 Colonia between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,798 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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	48
Debris and open burning	42
Arson/incendiarism	16
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BURNING BARREL
30 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	1427
22 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	QUEZADA RD.
9 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	YTURRIA
9 August 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	GARZA
8 August 1994	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	13
5 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LOS EBANOS FIRE
5 August 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LAJOYA2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Havana Lomas Number 2 Colonia: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bell Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Crow Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Spaulding Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
Spaulding Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sullivan City	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unnamed Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand

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
Havana Lomas Number 4 Colonia	0.1 miles	10
Havana Lomas Number 3 Colonia	0.1 miles	10
Havana Lomas Number 1 Colonia	0.1 miles	10
Havana Lomas Number 5 Colonia	0.2 miles	10
Havana	0.3 miles	10
Crow	0.4 miles	10
Sam Fordyce	0.9 miles	10
Lakeview Colonia	1.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011206. 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.