Pila Blanca, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Freer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78384. It stands on Tarancahuas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rosita quadrangle.

Pila Blanca within Duval County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Rosita Ranch quadrangle1:62500
1968 USGS Rosita quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Alice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Pila Blanca between 2006 and 2011, burning about 221 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
23 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SHELL PLANT ROAD
16 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CR 330
27 January 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Duval 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
Rosita	2.6 miles	8
Reyes	3.3 miles	8
George W Ward Addition Number 2 Colonia	8.5 miles	8
Coronado Perez Addition Colonia	8.5 miles	7
Highway 16 South Colonia	8.6 miles	8
George W Ward Addition Colonia	8.6 miles	8
East Pearson Street Colonia	8.8 miles	7
Williamson Addition Colonia	9.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378861. 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.