R C Babb Colonia Number 3 and 4, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Southeast Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78596. The Survey maps it on the Mercedes quadrangle.

R C Babb Colonia Number 3 and 4 within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Mercedes quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Mercedes quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

102 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of R C Babb Colonia Number 3 and 4 between 1997 and 2017, burning about 1,246 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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 burning	62
Arson/incendiarism	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
22 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LA COMA 2
22 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	DIAMOND FIRE
21 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	94 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	TAORMINA
12 September 2011	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	11-675
9 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	1015
31 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LA COMA
31 August 2010	Debris and open burning	4.6 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	VICTORIA
3 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	JOSE PORTILLO

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
R C Babb Colonia	0.2 miles	10
Cuellar Colonia Number 3	0.3 miles	10
Angela Colonia	0.3 miles	10
R C Babb Colonia Number 2	0.3 miles	10
Cuellar Colonia Number 2	0.3 miles	10
Cuellar Colonia Number 1	0.4 miles	10
Cuellar Colonia Number 4	0.4 miles	10
Llano Grande	0.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010973. 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.