Ranchitos los Veteranos Colonia, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Laredo South-El Cenizo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78369. The Survey maps it on the Mirando City quadrangle.

Ranchitos los Veteranos Colonia within Webb 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.

1940 USGS Aguilares quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Laredo quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Mirando City quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS San Ygnacio quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Ranchitos los Veteranos Colonia in 2017, burning about 7 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
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
30 August 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	JC PEREZ
8 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	MOLINA
15 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 649
3 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	CHINO'S
10 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	500 MAIN
16 February 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 2895
27 January 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 649
22 January 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MIRANDO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webb 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
Mirando City	1.0 miles	8
Mirando City Addition Colonia	1.1 miles	8
Oilton	2.7 miles	8
Rodriguez Addition Colonia	2.8 miles	8
Los Ojuelos	3.1 miles	8
Aguilares	3.7 miles	8
Aguilares Acres Colonia	3.9 miles	8
Bruni	9.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010718. 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.