Pharr, Texas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

• Valley Fruit Companylisted 2011

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 Pharr quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
• 1992 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 493 fires within 5 miles of Pharr between 1996 and 2018, burning about 826 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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:

• McDaniel Colonia
• Lantana Colonia
• Palm Heights Colonia
• Whalen Acres Colonia
• Bryan's Addition Colonia
• L R Bell Colonia

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pharr in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 heavy rain, 2 hail. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm 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.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1343930. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.