La Reforma, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Rio Grande City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78563. The Survey maps it on the La Reforma quadrangle.

La Reforma within Starr County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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.

1939 USGS La Reforma quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS La Reforma quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Encino quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Encino quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

18 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of La Reforma between 2006 and 2019, burning about 3,918 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	12
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	3

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 September 2017	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2294 RD.
6 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SAN ISIDRO
3 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1,000 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	CASAS RANCH
11 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	DELMITA
21 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	120 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAT CLAW RANCH FIRE
9 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUT 1017 AND 681
9 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LA REFORMA FIRE
10 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	530 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	HIDALGO COUNTY LINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Starr 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
Delmita	2.1 miles	11
El Centro	3.1 miles	11
Arkansas City	3.6 miles	11
Gloria Colonia	3.7 miles	11
San Isidro	4.7 miles	11
Old Santa Elena	6.0 miles	11
Santa Elena	7.8 miles	11
La Gloria	8.1 miles	10

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 Reforma	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6464800	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 1339397. 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.