Palm Acres Estates Colonia, Texas

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.

• 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 Mission quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
• 1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Mission quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 507 fires within 5 miles of Palm Acres Estates Colonia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,525 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 101 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Basham Number 15 Colonia
• Akin Development Colonia
• Ariel Hinojosa Colonia
• Basham Number 18 Colonia
• Breyfogle Park Colonia Number 1
• Country Corner Estates Colonia

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Palm Acres Estates Colonia: 10 producers, 1 unknown. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Hidalgo County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010986. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.