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Los Veteranos 83 Colonia, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo North-Webb census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78045. The Survey maps it on the Callaghan Ranch South quadrangle.

Los Veteranos 83 Colonia within Webb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Los Veteranos 83 Colonia in 2017, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning1

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
2 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 83

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webb 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
Botines1.1 miles8
Sunset Acres Colonia1.7 miles8
Webb1.8 miles8
Four Points Colonia1.8 miles8
Callaghan7.6 miles8
Orvil9.4 miles10
Los Huisaches Colonia9.5 miles8
Los Huisaches Number 2 Colonia9.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010703. 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.