Old Santa Elena, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Rio Grande City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78588. The Survey maps it on the San Isidro quadrangle.

Old Santa Elena within Starr 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.

1939 USGS La Reforma quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS San Isidro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Encino quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Encino quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

14 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Old Santa Elena between 2005 and 2019, burning about 5,918 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	1
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
15 September 2017	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2294 RD.
11 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	DELMITA
9 June 2016	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 755 RD
5 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	125 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SANTA ELANA
21 May 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2,200 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	YZAGUIRRE
6 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	75 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SAN ISIDRO
6 March 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
7 February 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	ABRAMS LEVEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Starr 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
San Isidro	1.3 miles	11
Gloria Colonia	2.2 miles	11
La Gloria	2.4 miles	10
Santa Elena	2.6 miles	11
El Centro	3.7 miles	11
Delmita	4.5 miles	11
Arkansas City	4.8 miles	11
La Reforma	6.0 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 Q122547433

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 1378801. 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.