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La Masa Road Colonia, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the San Diego census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78384. It stands on Rosita Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ben Bolt NW quadrangle.

La Masa Road Colonia within Duval County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

70 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of La Masa Road Colonia between 2005 and 2016, burning about 293 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined56
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service4014 W.44 FIRE.
30 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service346 CR. 147
25 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePEREZ FIRE
25 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSAN JOSE FIRE
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service18 C.R. 150 / PLOT 2/3 FIRE
1 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service529 WEST SAN DIEGO
6 July 2011Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service529 FM 1329
23 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service237 CR.147

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Buena Vista Colonia0.6 miles7
North Buena Vista Colonia0.7 miles7
County Road 111 Colonia1.2 miles8
San Diego1.8 miles8
Cadena Colonia2.1 miles7
Mi Tierra Colonia2.5 miles8
Four A's Colonia4.5 miles7
Rosita10.9 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010146. 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.