La Aura Crossing, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the East Cameron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78578. It lies near Long Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Laguna Vista quadrangle.

La Aura Crossing within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1929 USGS Laguna Vista quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS Laguna Vista quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Laguna Vista quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
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

21 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of La Aura Crossing between 2000 and 2020, burning about 2,763 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
13 August 2004	Debris and open burning	75 acres	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	BAHIA GRANDE
26 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.4 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BOCA CHICA 2
30 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
29 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	BAHIA GRANDE
16 June 2004	Debris and open burning	20 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	TRASH ROAD
10 June 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	RL OSTOS
6 May 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	100/BUENA VISTA
31 May 2005	Debris and open burning	87 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	BAHIA 1

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
Carretas Crossing	1.7 miles	15
Rutherford-Harding Addition Colonia	5.2 miles	15
Laguna Heights	5.2 miles	15
Laguna Vista	5.5 miles	15
Del Mar Heights	5.8 miles	14
Del Mar Heights Colonia	5.8 miles	14
Monica	5.9 miles	10
Port Isabel	6.9 miles	14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122589418

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380869. 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.