Lourdes Street Colonia, Texas

11 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 Laguna Atascosa quadrangle.

Lourdes Street Colonia within Cameron 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.

1930 USGS Laguna Atascosa quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS Laguna Atascosa quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Laguna Atascosa quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Los Fresnos quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

145 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Lourdes Street Colonia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 916 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning	65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	61
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
6 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	MIDGET
27 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
23 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
18 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
6 August 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE FM 2480
4 August 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	803 & KEMPNER
30 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Esquina Colonia	0.3 miles	11
East Fresnos Colonia	0.6 miles	11
Paredes Estates Colonia	1.1 miles	14
La Coma Colonia	1.5 miles	13
Laureles	1.6 miles	14
Casa del Rey Colonia	2.0 miles	15
Indian Lake	2.9 miles	15
Los Cuates	3.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010292. 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.