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Ramosville Colonia, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Southeast Hidalgo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78596. The Survey maps it on the Donna quadrangle.

Ramosville Colonia within Hidalgo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

108 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Ramosville Colonia between 1997 and 2018, burning about 1,352 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17

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
22 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeLA COMA 2
22 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDIAMOND FIRE
21 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined94 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeTAORMINA
12 September 2011Debris and open burning13 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-675
9 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge1015
7 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTRASH FIRE
31 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeLA COMA
31 August 2010Debris and open burning4.6 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeVICTORIA

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
Bellaire Colonia0.2 miles16
Villa Verde Colonia0.4 miles16
Villa Verde0.4 miles10
Wildwood Forest Colonia0.6 miles16
Citrus Retreat Colonia0.7 miles16
Encino Number 1 Colonia1.1 miles10
Westgate Estates Colonia1.3 miles16
Angela Colonia1.3 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010938. 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.