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Muniz Colonia, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Edinburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78542. The Survey maps it on the La Blanca quadrangle.

Muniz Colonia within Hidalgo 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

677 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 677 fires within 5 miles of Muniz Colonia between 2003 and 2018, burning about 1,084 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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 burning547
Missing data/not specified/undetermined98
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service09-671
4 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceILLEGAL BURN

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Muniz0.4 miles10
Isaacs Colonia0.8 miles10
Owassa Rd-Tower Rd Colonia1.0 miles16
Alberta Acres Colonia1.2 miles16
El Charro Number 2 Colonia1.3 miles16
L J Number 1 Colonia1.4 miles16
Murillo Colonia1.6 miles10
Morningside Estates Colonia2.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011047. 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.