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Los Ebanos Colonia Number 1, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Mission census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78573. The Survey maps it on the Alton quadrangle.

Los Ebanos Colonia Number 1 within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

204 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Los Ebanos Colonia Number 1 between 2003 and 2016, burning about 1,148 acres in total. None started naturally. 38 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/undetermined81
Debris and open burning77
Arson/incendiarism38
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexBENTSEN PILE
28 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexLA HOMA RD
28 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Texas Refuge ComplexDOFFING
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRYAN RD FIRE
18 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSHLINE FIRE
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMINNESOTA FIRE 5 MILE
9 August 2003Arson/incendiarism25 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexBENTSEN PALM
6 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4 MILE AND IOWA ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Los Ebanos Colonia Number 1: 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
BleakleySand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Hawkins PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
J-2 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
J-2 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche

Every working recorded in Hidalgo 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 2011098. 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.