Olivarez Number 15 Colonia, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Edcouch-Elsa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78599. The Survey maps it on the Donna quadrangle.

Olivarez Number 15 Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1914 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:48000
1914 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:62500
1916 USGS San Juan quadrangle1:62500, 3 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 Donna quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

59 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Olivarez Number 15 Colonia between 2003 and 2017, burning about 477 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
27 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PALM TREE FIRE
22 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DIAMOND FIRE
3 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	JOSE PORTILLO
20 August 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	9.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ELSA FIRE
11 August 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	BRUSH 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

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 Colonia Number 3	0.1 miles	16
Tony Colonia	0.4 miles	10
Olivarez	0.6 miles	10
Country Village Colonia Number 2	0.7 miles	10
Country Village Colonia Number 1	0.7 miles	10
Olivarez Number 17 Colonia	0.8 miles	10
Highland Memorial Park Colonia	0.8 miles	10
Tropical Farms Colonia	1.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011016. 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.