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Los Campos Number 3 and 4 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.

Los Campos Number 3 and 4 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.

Fires near this place

39 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Los Campos Number 3 and 4 Colonia between 1993 and 2017, burning about 60 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/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Fireworks6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
15 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 September 1994Natural1.3 acresAmistad National Recreation AreaROSE
10 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAmistad National Recreation AreaVIEWPOINT
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEST FIRE #1
5 August 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWIND MILL TRAIL FIRE
28 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmistad National Recreation AreaCLIFFS
9 July 2003Fireworksunder an acreAmistad National Recreation AreaSPUR454 2
5 July 2003Fireworksunder an acreAmistad National Recreation AreaSPUR451 1

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 Los Campos Number 3 and 4 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Reece Albert Inc Kelley PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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.

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010772. 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.