Oriente Colonia, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Southeast Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78579. The Survey maps it on the Progreso quadrangle.

Oriente Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Progreso quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Progreso quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

104 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Oriente Colonia between 1993 and 2019, burning about 851 acres in total. None started naturally. 34 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	52
Arson/incendiarism	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Smoking	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
27 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	OTHL CANAL
12 September 2011	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	11-675
9 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	1015
29 August 2006	Smoking	2.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SMOKEY JOE'S
24 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RUBEN
24 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	WHITEWING
19 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SANTA MARIA
17 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	1015

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
La Frontera Colonia	0.5 miles	11
J R Colonia Number 2	0.6 miles	11
A and E Ramirez Colonia	0.6 miles	11
Capetillo Colonia	0.7 miles	11
Rice Addition Colonia	0.7 miles	11
J R Colonia Number 1	0.7 miles	11
A and E Ramirez Colonia Number 2	0.8 miles	11
Colonia las Palmas	0.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010980. 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.