Las Flores Colonia, 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.

• 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Las Flores Colonia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,617 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 13 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.

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:

• Los Fresnos
• Cameron Park Colonia
• Chula Vista Colonia
• Del Mar Heights
• Del Mar Heights Colonia
• Hacienda Gardens Colonia

Every fire recorded in Cameron County

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

Every working recorded in Cameron 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 2010281. 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.