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Los Garzas, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Rio Grande City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78582. It stands on Arroyo Quiote. The Survey maps it on the Los Garzas quadrangle.

Los Garzas within Starr County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

768 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 768 fires within 5 miles of Los Garzas between 2002 and 2020, burning about 4,198 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 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/undetermined572
Debris and open burning157
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
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
9 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAZAN AVE.
6 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBAZAN RD.
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMUNIZ CIR
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeGARCENO
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLA VISTA ST.
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSEPULVEDA CIR.
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLA MESA ST./MI RANCHITA DR.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Starr County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Los Garzas: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Fidel Guerra Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Guerra PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Starr 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
Santel Colonia1.0 miles9
Midway Colonia1.1 miles9
Villareales1.2 miles11
La Escondida Colonia1.5 miles10
Palo Blanco Colonia1.7 miles9
El Quiote Colonia1.7 miles9
Remolino1.8 miles9
Los Alvarez1.8 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122569946The 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 1340596. 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.