Rice Tracts Colonia, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Brownsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78586. The Survey maps it on the La Paloma quadrangle.

Rice Tracts Colonia within Cameron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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.

1929 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000
1936 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1953 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Port Isabel quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Harlingen quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS La Paloma quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

91 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Rice Tracts Colonia between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,200 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RANCHITO2
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RANCHITO E
3 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RANCHITO W
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	USDA
6 August 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	LA ENCANTADA
31 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	1421
22 August 1997	Smoking	10 acres	Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge	RANCHITO2
14 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Texas Refuge Complex	PADILLA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cameron 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
Palmer Colonia	1.2 miles	13
Encantada Colonia	2.0 miles	13
Esparza Colonia Number 2	2.1 miles	13
Esparza Colonia Number 1	2.1 miles	13
Ismael Montalvo Colonia Number 2	2.1 miles	13
Lago	2.2 miles	15
El Calaboz	2.2 miles	13
El Calabozo Colonia	2.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2010205. 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.