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Puerta del Sol Colonia, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Edinburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78541. The Survey maps it on the Faysville quadrangle.

Puerta del Sol Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

136 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Puerta del Sol Colonia between 2002 and 2012, burning about 331 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 burning68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Highway Frontage Colonia0.2 miles8
Faysville0.6 miles8
North Santa Cruz Colonia1.0 miles8
Monte Cristo Heights Colonia1.1 miles8
Lake Citrus Estates Colonia1.4 miles8
Pralle Colonia1.4 miles8
BJB Colonia1.7 miles8
Cottonwood Colonia1.8 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010966. 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.