Monte Christo, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Mission census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78541. The Survey maps it on the Monte Christo quadrangle.

Monte Christo within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1940 USGS Monte Christo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Monte Christo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

51 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Monte Christo between 2002 and 2016, burning about 3,002 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	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
16 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	MONTE CRISTO
9 August 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	RATTLESNAKE
7 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	WATSON
25 August 2004	Debris and open burning	25 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	MINNESOTA
23 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 July 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	MONTE CRISTO
30 July 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	MONTE CRISTO 1
3 July 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	TROSPER

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
Regency Acres Number 2 Colonia	2.5 miles	11
Simpatico Acres Colonia	3.1 miles	11
CJRS Colonia	3.4 miles	11
Basham Number 3 Colonia	3.5 miles	11
Ware Country Colonia Number 2	4.2 miles	11
Palmeras Colonia	4.2 miles	11
Calma Estates Colonia Number 2	4.3 miles	11
Calma Estates Colonia Number 3	4.3 miles	11

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 Q122562694

The 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 1378695. 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.