Las Yescas, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Rio Hondo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78586. The Survey maps it on the Rio Hondo quadrangle.

Las Yescas within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1929 USGS Rio Hondo quadrangle1:24000
1932 USGS Rio Hondo quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Rio Hondo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

41 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Las Yescas between 2002 and 2020, burning about 502 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Debris and open burning	16
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	TUFF LUCK
6 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	HONDO
5 August 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
4 August 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	803 & KEMPNER
3 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
16 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
30 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	N 1847
1 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	345

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
Arroyo Gardens	0.7 miles	11
Alfredo Garza Colonia	0.9 miles	11
San Vicente Estates Colonia	1.1 miles	13
Arroyo Gardens Number 2 Colonia	1.1 miles	11
Vicente Sandoval Colonia	1.4 miles	11
Gumesindo Galvan Colonia	1.6 miles	11
La Tina Ranch	1.7 miles	11
Leonar B De Villarreal Colonia	1.7 miles	11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Las Yescas	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122545331	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1339690. 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.