Mesquite Acres Colonia, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Edcouch-Elsa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78570. The Survey maps it on the Mercedes quadrangle.

Mesquite Acres Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Mercedes quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Mercedes quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

44 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Mesquite Acres Colonia between 2003 and 2017, burning about 430 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	1

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
7 September 2012	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	4 WEST FIRE
22 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DIAMOND FIRE
20 August 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	9.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ELSA FIRE
8 July 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	12 MILE
19 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 July 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
17 July 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	10 NORTH
1 July 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	EDCOUCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Chapa South Colonia	0.3 miles	10
Acre Tract Colonia	0.4 miles	10
Chapa North Colonia	0.5 miles	10
Olivarez Number 4 Colonia	0.5 miles	10
Mila Doce	0.5 miles	10
La Paloma Number 1 Colonia	0.7 miles	10
Olivarez Number 10 Colonia	0.8 miles	10
Puesta del Sol Colonia	0.8 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011074. 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.