Highway 16 South Colonia, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Freer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78357. The Survey maps it on the Freer South quadrangle.

Highway 16 South Colonia within Duval County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1956 USGS Freer quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1971 USGS Freer South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Alice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Highway 16 South Colonia between 2006 and 2008, burning about 86 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	4
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
15 April 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
16 March 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
23 February 2008	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 January 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 January 2008	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 January 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
15 January 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval 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 Highway 16 South Colonia: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. 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
	Moca Salt Dome	Halite	Occurrence	1950

Every working recorded in Duval 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
Williamson Addition Colonia	0.7 miles	8
Magnolia Road Colonia	0.8 miles	7
George W Ward Addition Colonia	1.1 miles	8
George W Ward Addition Number 2 Colonia	1.1 miles	8
School Heights Addition Number 2 Colonia	1.3 miles	7
Coronado Perez Addition Colonia	1.5 miles	7
Freer	1.6 miles	7
East Pearson Street Colonia	1.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010145. 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.