Laguna Escondida Colonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Harlingen-San Benito census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78550. The Survey maps it on the Paso Real quadrangle.

Laguna Escondida Colonia within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1933 USGS Paso Real quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Paso Real quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Laguna Escondida Colonia between 1996 and 2018, burning about 138 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/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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
1 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	PALOMA BLANCA COMMAND
11 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	REYNOLDS
1 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	345
22 June 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
22 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
12 June 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	MILO
2 May 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.2 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	EBONY
15 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	WASHINGTON COMMAND

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
Santa Elena Colonia	0.7 miles	13
Laguna Escondida Heights Number 2 Colonia	1.3 miles	11
Rio Hondo	2.5 miles	13
Lopez Colonia	2.6 miles	13
West Addition Colonia	2.7 miles	13
Jones Addition Colonia	2.7 miles	13
Tatum Addition Colonia	2.7 miles	13
Bullis Addition Colonia	3.1 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010278. 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.