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Las Palmas Colonia, Texas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the El Paso census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79936. The Survey maps it on the Fort Bliss SE quadrangle.

Las Palmas Colonia within El Paso County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Las Palmas Colonia between 1999 and 2018, burning about 200 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/undetermined2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 October 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGuadalupe Mountains National ParkFALS ALRM
24 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1477

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in El Paso County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Las Palmas Colonia: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Montana QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Americas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Section 10Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in El Paso 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Las Palmas Number 2 Colonia0.1 miles18
Turf Estates Number 1 Colonia1.9 miles18
Cielo Vista5.0 miles21
Del Norte Heights5.1 miles18
Hacienda Heights5.3 miles18
Loma Terrace5.3 miles18
Aero Vista5.5 miles21
Homestead Homes Colonia5.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010053. 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.