Lake View Addition Colonia, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Del Rio census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78840. The Survey maps it on the Del Rio NW quadrangle.

Lake View Addition Colonia within Val Verde County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1943 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Del Rio NW quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Del Rio quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

45 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Lake View Addition Colonia between 1993 and 2017, burning about 65 acres in total. 1 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	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Fireworks	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4
Debris and open burning	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	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
15 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
13 September 1994	Natural	1.3 acres	Amistad National Recreation Area	ROSE
10 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Amistad National Recreation Area	VIEWPOINT
7 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WEST FIRE #1
5 August 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WIND MILL TRAIL FIRE
28 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Amistad National Recreation Area	CLIFFS
23 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Amistad National Recreation Area	DIABLO EAST PICNIC FIRE
21 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Amistad National Recreation Area	GYPSY M/C

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Val Verde County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lake View Addition Colonia: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Reece Albert Inc Kelley Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Val Verde 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
Lake View	0.2 miles	7
Los Campos Number 3 and 4 Colonia	2.0 miles	7
Los Campos Number 1,2 and 5 Colonia	2.5 miles	7
Amistad Village	4.3 miles	9
Cienegas Terrace Colonia	6.1 miles	7
Cienegas Terrace	6.2 miles	7
Owens Addition Number 2 Colonia	6.3 miles	7
Owens Addition Number 1 Colonia	6.4 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010770. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.