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Los Cuates, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Los Fresnos-Laureles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78566. The Survey maps it on the Los Fresnos quadrangle.

Los Cuates within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

144 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Los Cuates between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,312 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined58
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2

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
6 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexMIDGET
23 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
18 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
30 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
29 August 2004Natural14 acresLaguna Atascosa National Wildlife RefugeFRESNOS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Los Cuates in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLos Cuates-An off-duty NWS Employee noted between one and two dozen medium to large limbs of mostly mesquite trees blown down along Interstate 69E between exits 18 and 12. Time estimated from other reports and radar.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
La Peñusca0.2 miles14
Indian Lake0.7 miles15
Los Fresnos1.2 miles14
Casa del Rey Colonia1.9 miles15
Laureles2.0 miles14
Paredes Estates Colonia2.5 miles14
Shoemaker Acres Colonia2.8 miles14
Orason Acres Colonia2.8 miles14

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 Los CuatesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122551128The 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 1374723. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.