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Riverside Acres Colonia, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Eagle Pass census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78852. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Pass SW quadrangle.

Riverside Acres Colonia within Maverick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

14 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Riverside Acres Colonia in 2008, burning about 92 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
27 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
17 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maverick 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 Riverside Acres Colonia: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Eagle Pass Fluorspar MillFluorine-FluoriteProducer

Every working recorded in Maverick 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.

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2011378. 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.