La Peñusca, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Los Fresnos-Laureles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78566. The Survey maps it on the Los Fresnos quadrangle.

La Peñusca within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1930 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:24000, 3 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

141 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of La Peñusca between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,309 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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	58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	57
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	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
6 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
6 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	MIDGET
23 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
2 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
18 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
30 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
30 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
29 August 2004	Natural	14 acres	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	FRESNOS

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
Los Cuates	0.2 miles	14
Indian Lake	0.9 miles	15
Los Fresnos	1.0 miles	14
Laureles	2.2 miles	14
Casa del Rey Colonia	2.2 miles	15
Paredes Estates Colonia	2.6 miles	14
Shoemaker Acres Colonia	2.6 miles	14
Orason Acres Colonia	2.7 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.

Wikipedia article on La Peñusca	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q124309292	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 1374422. 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.