Puerto Rico, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Puerto Rico-San Manuel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78563. The Survey maps it on the La Reforma quadrangle.

Puerto Rico within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1939 USGS La Reforma quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS McAllen quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS La Reforma quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Mc Allen quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Encino quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Encino quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Puerto Rico between 2006 and 2019, burning about 3,536 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	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	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
6 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	SAN ISIDRO
3 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1,000 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	CASAS RANCH
21 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	120 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CAT CLAW RANCH FIRE
9 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MUT 1017 AND 681
9 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	LA REFORMA FIRE
10 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	530 acres	South Texas Refuge Complex	HIDALGO COUNTY LINE
22 April 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	60 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
20 April 2009	Debris and open burning	520 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DELMITA FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Puerto Rico in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2017	Hail	Puerto Rico	-	Public reported 1.5 inch hail near FM 2687 and Chihuahua in Zapata County.

Every storm 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
Cipres	3.0 miles	11
McCook	11.7 miles	10
Los Angeles	12.0 miles	11
San Manuel	13.3 miles	11
Laguna Seca	13.3 miles	8
Linn	13.4 miles	11
Lane Number 1 Colonia	14.9 miles	11
Lane Number 2 Colonia	15.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378915. 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.