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Red Gate, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Puerto Rico-San Manuel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78542. The Survey maps it on the Faysville quadrangle.

Red Gate 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

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Red Gate between 1994 and 2018, burning about 29,239 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 August 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeSAL DE REY
25 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexCUELLAR!
23 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexLAGUNA SECA
19 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeSAL DEL REY 3
16 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeROADSIDE
16 August 1994Debris and open burning15 acresLower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife RefugeSALDELREY
6 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresSouth Texas Refuge ComplexMILLER '09
23 July 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hidalgo County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Red Gate: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Caliche QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerCaliche

Every working recorded in Hidalgo County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Gate in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2021Thunderstorm WindRed Gate-As thunderstorms moved through the area, the RAWS site at Linn-San Manuel measured a wind gust to 60 mph or 52 knots.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lane Number 2 Colonia0.5 miles11
Lane Number 1 Colonia0.5 miles11
Solino0.6 miles8
Laguna Seca3.2 miles8
Los Cerritos Colonia3.8 miles8
Alsonia Colonia4.1 miles8
Linn4.4 miles11
San Manuel4.7 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1344915. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.