Old Milwaukee East Colonia, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo South-El Cenizo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78043. The Survey maps it on the Laredo South quadrangle. It stands 538 feet above sea level.

Old Milwaukee East Colonia within Webb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1933 USGS Becerra Creek quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Laredo South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS San Ygnacio quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Old Milwaukee East Colonia between 2012 and 2017, burning about 25 acres 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 burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	EL ROCICO
11 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HWY 59
3 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
19 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MANGANA HEIN
31 May 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	LAS LOMAS
21 May 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	9777 HWY 31
14 April 2017	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	1706065-GRASS & WOODS
7 December 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	JUDITH

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Old Milwaukee West Colonia	0.2 miles	9
Larga Vista Colonia	0.7 miles	9
Larga Vista	0.8 miles	9
Los Altos Colonia	1.9 miles	9
D-5 Acres Colonia	2.1 miles	9
Tanquecitos South Acres Colonia	2.2 miles	9
San Carlos Number 1 Colonia	2.6 miles	8
Laredo Ranchettes	2.7 miles	8

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 Q15263828

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 2010705. 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.