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La Coma Heights Colonia, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Edinburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78542. The Survey maps it on the Hargill quadrangle.

La Coma Heights Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

52 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of La Coma Heights Colonia between 2005 and 2017, burning about 139 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
31 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUTUAL AID
1 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeSAL DEL REY
7 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service19251 N. EXPWY 281
23 July 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Harding Gill Tract Colonia1.6 miles9
Hargill2.9 miles9
Los Cerritos Colonia3.6 miles8
Alsonia Colonia4.1 miles8
Faysville4.2 miles8
Edinburg Acres Colonia4.4 miles9
Highway Frontage Colonia4.6 miles8
Solino4.7 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011165. 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.