Las Escobas, Texas

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.

• 1938 USGS El Sauz 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 Las Escobas Ranch quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Encino quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Encino quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Las Escobas between 2004 and 2018, burning about 1,413 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• San Carlos
• El Sauz
• San Roman
• Viboras

Every fire recorded in Starr County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034787. 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.